There is a substantial literature examining coordination in public goods games. We conducted an experiment to explore …

and DRD4) are significant determinants of risk taking in investment decisions. We find that the 5-HTTLPR s/s allele … carriers take 28% less risk than those carrying the s/l or l/l alleles of the gene. DRD4 7-repeat allele carriers take 25% more … risk than individuals without the 7-repeat allele. These findings contribute to the emerging literature on the genetic …

(1952) and substitutes the fourfold pattern of risk attitudes introduced by Cumulative Prospect Theory. The results … conditions of risk and may signal a return to a description of people’s behavior that only relies on the utility-like function. …

In an experiment using two-bidder first-price sealed bid auctions with symmetric independent private values, we …

In an experiment using two-bidder first-price sealed bid auctions with symmetric independent private values, we scan …), risk aversion in an investment task (Dreber and Hoffman, 2007), and the average profitability of high-frequency traders in …

Using a laboratory experiment we investigate how skew in uences choices under risk. We find that subjects make …

particular, we found that optimism and anxiety were a liability in unfavorable markets, leading to unreasonable levels of risk …. Impulsivity was a liability in both favorable and unfavorable markets, leading to high risk on unfavorable markets, and low risk … in favorable markets. Openness to experience was an asset in unfavorable markets, leading to adjusted risk taking …