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The paper reports the result of an experimental game on asset integration and risk taking. We find evidence that … winnings in earlier rounds affect risk taking in subsequent rounds, but no evidence that real life wealth outside the … experiment affects risk taking. We find some evidence of imitation of the risk taking behavior of others that is distinct from …
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This paper presents experimental evidence that when individuals are about to make a given decision under risk, they are … willing to pay for information on the likelihood that this decision is ex-post optimal, even if this information will not … affect their decision. Our findings suggest that this demand for non-instrumental information is caused by what we refer to …
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utility function. We then fit the experimental choices to this model to assess the risk attitude of our subjects. Despite the … substantial heterogeneity across subjects, decreasing absolute risk aversion and increasing relative risk aversion are the most … prevalent risk types, and we can classify more than 50% of the subjects in this combined category. We also find evidence of …
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This paper presents new evidence on the distribution of risk attitudes in the population, using a novel set of survey … representative sample of 450 subjects, and find that the general risk question is a good predictor of actual risk-taking behavior. We … then use a more standard lottery question to measure risk preferences in our sample of 22,000, and find similar results …
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This experimental study is concerned with the impact of the timing of the resolution of risk on people’s willingness to … inferred from decisions regarding hypothetical choice problems, we had participants put their own money at risk in a real … period under delayed resolution (which involved two days). Affective traits and risk attitudes were measured through a web …
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This paper analyzes the effects of network positions and individual risk attitudes on individuals' strategic decisions … factors, such as the number of (direct) neighbors, local clustering and individuals' risk attitudes. …
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variable is the particular decision stage at which a global risk is resolved: (i) before the investment decision; (ii) after … the investment decision but before the resolution of the investment risk; (iii) after the resolution of the investment …From the viewpoint of the independence axiom of expected utility theory, an interesting empirical dynamic choice …
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between risk and uncertainty is implemented by applying the Gilboa-Schmeidler maxmin with multiple priors framework to lenders …
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We analyse bidding behaviour in auctions when risk-averse buyers bid for a good whose value is risky. We show that when … risk in the valuations increases, DARA bidders will reduce their bids by more than the appropriate increase in the risk … marginal utility of income increases with risk, so buyers are reluctant to bid so highly. We also show that precautionary …
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Multi-unit ascending auctions allow for equilibria in which bidders strategically reduce their demand and split the market at low prices. At the same time, they allow for pre-emptive bidding by incumbent bidders in a coordinated attempt to exclude entrants from the market. We consider an...
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