Risk attitudes when choosing for others
Abstract This paper provides a defense of the principle ‘avoid risk for others:’ when a person’s risk-attitudes are unknown, it is wrong to take, on their behalf, some of the risks that they could rationally choose to take.
Authors
- Ittay Nissan‐Rozen (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8970-4300)
- Yonathan Fiat (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3601-6373)
Institutions
- University of Toronto (CA)
- Hebrew University of Jerusalem (IL)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Analysis
- Published
- 2025-10-03
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1093/analys/anaf060
- Primary Topic
- Risk Perception and Management
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00