The willingness to trust human receivers is compared to the inclination to take lottery risk in six distinct scenarios, controlling the return distributions. Trust shows significantly smaller responsiveness to return expectations compared to parallel pure-risk lottery allocation, and paired...

This paper suggests that part of the implied time Subjective Discount Rate (SDR) collected by Willingness To Pay (WTP) is an immediate premium. We offer a theoretical and experimental analysis of the gross SDR, which consists of the immediate premium and the net SDR (i.e., SDR less the immediate...

Three experiments are presented that compare alternative explanations to the coexistence of risk aversion and under-diversification in investment decisions. The participants were asked to select one of several assets under two feedback conditions. In each case, one asset was a weighted...