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This paper focuses on egocentric biases in financial decisions. Subjects first designa portfolio, whereby each combination of assets yields the same expected returnand variance of returns. They are then confronted with two alternative portfolios;the average portfolio and the portfolio of one’s...
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illusion of control. By forming their portfolio of tworisky lotteries and one risk-less alternative, subjects are requested to … investment. Also, offering adefault portfolio strongly determines final allocations. …
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We study time preferences in a real-effort experiment with a one-month horizon. We report thattwo thirds of choices …
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In this paper we relate individual risk attitude as elicited by binary lotteriesand certainty equivalents to market … equivalents are poorly correlated. Only lottery choices are relatedto market behavior: the higher the degree of risk aversion the … lower theobserved market activity. Females are more risk averse than males accordingto binary lotteries, submit fewer offers …
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We experimentally test overconfidence in investment decisions by offering participants the possibility to substitute … their own for alternative investment choices.Overall, 149 subjects participated in two experiments, one with just one risky …
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more in such stocks”. We conducted an experimentin Jena, Germany to test whether subjects show local bias and use … familiar but not local stocks. Our experiment showsno evidence that familiarity is a reason for local bias. …
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How do people make investment decisions when they receive outcome feedback? We examinedhow well the standard mean … risk and covariance of the investments into account. The experimental results illustrate thatpeople reacted sensitively to … different correlation structures of the investment alternatives, whichwas best predicted by the extended reinforcement model …
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The results of an asset market experiment, in which 64 subjects trade two assets oneight markets in a computerized …
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We propose an experimental design allowing a behavioral test of the axiom ofcompleteness of individual preferences. The … preferences are significantly incomplete. We use lotteries as choice alternatives and we find that risk aversion is globally …
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An empirically well-established finding is that equity portfolios are concentratedin the domestic equity market of the investor. Previous theoreticaland empirical analyses have mainly focused on institutional explanations andlargely neglected individual behavior. In this study we report the...
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