Do MTurkers Exhibit Myopic Loss Aversion?

We present results from a highly powered online experiment with 937 participants on Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk) that examined whether MTurkers exhibit myopic loss aversion (MLA). The experiment consisted of measuring MLA-compliant behavior in two between-subjects treatments that differed only regarding the risk profile of the risky asset employed. We found no statistically significant evidence of MLA-compliant behavior among MTurkers in both treatments.

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Year of publication:	2021
Authors:	Schwaiger, Rene ; Hueber, Laura
Publisher:	Innsbruck : University of Innsbruck, Research Platform Empirical and Experimental Economics (eeecon)
Subject:	online experiment \| myopic loss aversion \| risk \| mturk

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Series:	Working Papers in Economics and Statistics ; 2021-12
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Type of publication (narrower categories):	Working Paper
Language:	English
Other identifiers:	1764294955 [GVK] hdl:10419/240440 [Handle] RePEc:inn:wpaper:2021-12 [RePEc]
Classification:	G10 - General Financial Markets. General ; G11 - Portfolio Choice ; g41
Source:	EconStor

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