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measured during the experiment. Main findings are that delayed resolution can affect investment, that the effect depends on the … investment task. Moreover, emotions were explicitly measured, including anticipatory emotions experienced during the waiting …-based questionnaire before the experiment and participants' preferences for resolution timing, risk, and time were incentive compatibly …
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Whether people seek or avoid risks on gambling, insurance, asset, or labor markets crucially depends on the skewness of the underlying probability distribution. In fact, people typically seek positively skewed risks and avoid negatively skewed risks. We show that salience theory of choice under...
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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 …
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subjective beliefs of players. In a laboratory experiment we measure subjects? certainty equivalents for three coordination games …
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The completeness axiom of choice has been questioned for long, and in response, theoretical models of decision making allowing for incomplete preferences have been developed. So far the theoretical accomplishments have however not been paired with empirical evidence on the actual existence of...
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experiment, we let third parties redistribute resources between two stakeholders who could earn money either by choosing a safe … amount or by engaging in a risky, but potentially more profitable, investment. In one treatment, the outcome of the risky … investment is determined by a random move, while in another treatment stakeholders can cheat to obtain the more profitable …
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interact in such situations. In this paper we provide experimental evidence on this question. In a first experiment givers are … the realized state of the world. In a second experiment, risk affects the earnings of givers but not of beneficiaries. We …
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In an experiment that elicits subjects’ willingness to pay (WTP) for the outcome of a lottery, we confirm the fourfold …
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to reduce these insurance gaps. We examine insurance decisions in a computer-administered experiment that makes several …
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We measure individual-level loss aversion using three incentivized, representative surveys of the U.S. population (combined N = 3,000). We find that around 50% of the U.S. population is loss tolerant, with many participants accepting negative-expected-value gambles. This is counter to earlier...
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