In this paper it is shown that the combination of mental accounting and loss aversion can fundamentally changes people's way of evaluating risky alternatives. The observation is applied in a market setting: Parimutuel betting markets. In parimutuel betting markets it has been found that for...

Parametric and non-parametric risk aversion is often elicited through binary lotteries. Basing ourselves on recent evidence of the higher than theorized importance of skewness in decision making, we highlight in this paper that skewness might bias the result of risk aversion elicitation in two...

We report evidence of an endowment effect for risk, extending previous results to the popular paired-choice lottery setting. Specifically, we observe a distribution of revealed preferences consistent with risk aversion that diminishes in endowed variance, although the effect is considerably...