Political decisions usually involve risks regarding potential outcomes. In an ideal
representative system, voters should therefore evaluate politicians not only according to the …

Risk choice delegation is pervasive in financial environments. While previous research has
explored how agents balance self-interest with interests of passive investors little is known …

We study whether money managers impose their risk preferences onto investments for
clients paternalistically and whether they impose them more, the more their client's risk …

Research has long documented how different forms of uncertainty, namely risk and
ambiguity, influence decision making. This literature, however, has given little attention to …

This thesis uses economic experiments to examine the mechanisms behind decisionmaking
for others; namely, reputational lying costs, ideals projective paternalism and preference …