We experimentally investigate the Outcome Bias in financial decision making. In three treatments, we vary the cognitive challenge investors have to overcome to separate skill from luck. Investors show clear tendencies towards the Outcome Bias in all treatments. The Outcome Bias is stronger, by a...

A recent theory by Gennaioli, Shleifer, and Vishny (2015) proposes that trust is an important component for delegated investing. This paper tests the theory in a laboratory experiment. Participants first play a trust game. Participants then act as investors who have to make two separate,...