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The Impact of Risk Perception and Risk Attitudes on Corrupt Behavior : Evidence from a Petty Corruption Experiment

Mir Djawadi, Behnud - 2013

abstract from confounding effects of reciprocal behavior, we design an experiment where a public official decides upon … early periods. Risk attitudes measured with a subsequent lottery-choice experiment do not correlate with the behavior … observed in the corruption experiment. We explain our findings by a systematic underestimation of the overall probability of …

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Do Measures of Risk Attitude in the Laboratory Predict Behavior Under Risk in and Outside of the Laboratory?

Charness, Gary - 2019

We consider the external validity of laboratory measures of risk attitude. Based on a large-scale experiment using a …

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Individual-Level Loss Aversion in Riskless and Risky Choices

Gächter, Simon; Johnson, Eric J.; Herrmann, Andreas - 2021

endowment effect experiment by eliciting both WTA and WTP from each of our 360 subjects (randomly selected customers of a car …

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Does Everyone Use Probabilities? Intuitive and Rational Decisions About Stockholding

Binswanger, Johannes - 2013

We investigate the relationship between subjective probabilities of future stock market returns and decisions about stockholding. Specifically, we examine whether acting upon subjective probabilities is confined to individuals with high cognitive skills. We explore this question using data from...

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Framing Effects and Impatience : Evidence from a Large Scale Experiment

van der Heijden, Eline - 2013

We confront a representative sample of one 1,102 Dutch individuals with a series of incentivized investment decisions …

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Does Self-Control Depletion Affect Risk Attitudes?

Gerhardt, Holger - 2016

within a particular range. We test the hypotheses in a lab experiment with a large number of subjects (N = 308), using a well …

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True Overconfidence, Revealed Through Actions : An Experiment

Cheung, Stephen L. - 2017

We report an experiment that infers true overconfidence in relative ability through actions, as opposed to reported …

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Does Voluntary Risk Taking Affect Solidarity? Experimental Evidence from Kenya

Strobl, Renate - 2017

In this study we experimentally investigate whether solidarity, which is a crucial base for informal insurance arrangements in developing countries, is sensitive to the extent to which individuals can influence their risk exposure. With slum dwellers of Nairobi our design measures subjects'...

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Safe Options Induce Gender Differences in Risk Attitudes

Crosetto, Paolo - 2017

Gender differences in risk attitudes are frequently observed, although recent literature has shown that they are context dependent rather than ubiquitous. In this paper we try to rationalize the heterogeneity of results investigating experimentally whether the presence of a safe option among the...

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Competition and Subsequent Risk-Taking Behaviour : Heterogeneity Across Gender and Outcomes

Filippin, Antonio - 2017

This paper studies if competition affects subsequent risk-taking behaviour by means of a laboratory experiment that …

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