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Overall, 72 subjects invest their endowment in four risky assets. Each com-bination of assets yields the same expected return and variance of returns. Illusion of expertise prevails when one prefers nevertheless the self-selected portfolio. After being randomly assigned to groups of four...
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not captured by existing models. -- investment decision ; delayed resolution of risk ; emotions ; experiment …-based questionnaire before the experiment and participants' preferences for resolution timing, risk, and time were incentive compatibly … measured during the experiment. Main findings are that delayed resolution can affect investment, that the effect depends on the …
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risk and typically need to assume stability of these characteristics over time and across decision domains. We test the … reliability of two choice tasks for eliciting discount rates, risk aversion, and probability weighting and assess the stability of … largely uncorrelated with decisions in other important life domains involving intertemporal trade-offs and risk. …
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We study reputational herding in financial markets in a laboratory experiment. In the spirit of Dasgupta and Prat (2008 … employers. Employers can observe investment behavior, but not investors' ability types. Thereby, reputational incentives may …
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explaining heterogeneity in important life outcomes and behavior. -- risk preference ; time preference ; social preferences …
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In a laboratory experiment, we measure subjects' willingness to pay for a transparently useless decision right …
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The theory of expected utility maximization (EUM) proposed by Bernoulli explains risk aversion as a consequence of … from the terms offered; and subjects often appear to be too risk averse with regard to small gambles (while still accepting … from judgments based on imprecise (and noisy) mental representation of the decision situation. In this model, risk aversion …
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We experimentally investigate whether individuals strategically distort their beliefs about dominant norms. Embedded in the context of lying, we systematically vary both the nature of elicited beliefs (descriptive about what others do, or normative about what others approve of) and whether...
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risk, showing that the effect of prior experiences depends on task similarity. Beyond that, we extend these findings to …
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Does the extent of cheating depend on a proper reference point? We use a real effort task that implements a two (gain versus loss frame) times two (monitored performance versus unmonitored performance) between-subjects design to examine whether cheating is reference-dependent. Our experimental...
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