Socially responsible behavior is crucial for slowing the spread of infectious diseases.
However, economic and epidemiological models of disease transmission abstract from …

This article studies the global variation in economic preferences. For this purpose, we
present the Global Preference Survey (GPS), an experimentally validated survey data set of …

Incentivized choice experiments are a key approach to measuring preferences in economics
but are also costly. Survey measures are a low-cost alternative but can suffer from additional …

The world economy is facing important medium-and long-term challenges. Whereas rich
countries will be challenged to increase their economic productivity to sustain current …

Countercyclical risk aversion can explain major puzzles such as the high volatility of asset
prices. Evidence for its existence is, however, scarce because of the host of factors that …

We investigate whether individuals' risk preferences change after experiencing a natural
disaster, specifically, the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake. Exploiting the panels of …

Evidence shows that people's preference for risk changes considerably when measured
using different methods, which led us to question whether the common practice of using a …

Based on the literature on the relationship between culture, emotion, and loss aversion, we
derive that culture can influence the degree of loss aversion. To test our hypotheses, we …

We have made major changes to the 2017 version of this report. First, we have developed a
powerful new conceptual approach to measuring the global entrepreneurial ecosystem that …

The modern temple of economic development is like many temples of the ancient world:
Both are held up by pillars. Like the pillars of ancient temples—made of sand and limestone …