This study experimentally investigates how a principal uses outcome information in her subjective evaluation of an agent who chooses between alternatives of differing risks, and how outcome bias in the evaluation is related to the agent's risk taking decision. We consider both a situation of...

We provide a preference-based rationale for endogenous overconfidence. Horizon-dependent risk aversion, combined with a possibility to forget, can generate overconfidence and excessive risk taking in equilibrium. An "anxiety prone" agent, who is more risk-averse to imminent than to distant...

We study three fundamental components of financial agency settings: Perception and communication of investment profiles, the interaction of agents’ and clients’ preferences, and the role of (non-)monetary incentives. The perception of investment profile terminology is very heterogeneous,...