paper we address two issues related to the effects of MLA on risky investment decisions. First, we assess the relative … impact of feedback frequency and investment flexibility (via the investment horizon) on risky investments. Second, given that … we observe higher investments with a longer investment horizon, we examine conditions under which investors might …

increases investment levels. -- myopic loss aversion ; risk ; investment ; experiment …We examine in an experiment the causes, consequences and possible cures of myopic loss aversion (MLA) for investment … behaviour under risk. We find that both, investment horizons and feedback frequency contribute almost equally to the effects of …

It is shown how to test revealed preference data on choices under uncertainty for consistency with first and second … order stochastic dominance (FSD or SSD). The axiom derived for SSD is a necessary and sufficient condition for risk aversion …. If an investor is risk averse, stochastic dominance relations can be combined with revealed preference relations to …

In this paper we investigate how volatility shocks influence investors' perceptions about a stock's risk, its future … development, and investors' investment propensity. We ran artefactual field experiments with two participant pools (finance … professionals and students) that had to take investment decisions, differing in (i) the direction of the shock (down, up, straight …

increases in investors' risk aversion which in turn increases investors' proneness to familiarity bias. I hypothesize that …

We study three fundamental components of financial agency settings: Perception and communication of investment profiles … investment profile terminology is very heterogeneous, resulting in substantial miscommunication between clients and agents …. Financial agents show a high willingness to implement their clients’ preferred investment profiles independent of monetary …

I exploit a natural experiment to show that household investment decisions depend on the manner in which information is …