The close to zero interest rates past the economic crisis open possibility to directly test for loss aversion in framed field structured investment tasks. We use a Web-survey platform to compare the willingness to invest in LOSS-GAIN deposits that pay positive return G in favorable market...

The return on composite investment instruments takes the form of weighted-average, derived from the performance of at least two economic indicators. Three allocation experiments illustrate that prospective investors tend to valuate composites "by-tranche", consistently violating the rational...