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risk and typically need to assume stability of these characteristics over time and across decision domains. We test the … reliability of two choice tasks for eliciting discount rates, risk aversion, and probability weighting and assess the stability of … largely uncorrelated with decisions in other important life domains involving intertemporal trade-offs and risk …
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risk and typically need to assume stability of these characteristics over time and across decision domains. We test the … reliability of two choice tasks for eliciting discount rates, risk aversion, and probability weighting and assess the stability of … largely uncorrelated with decisions in other important life domains involving intertemporal trade-offs and risk …
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In this paper we study the effects that loss contracts - prepayments that can be clawbacked later - have on group coordination when there is strategic uncertainty. We compare the choices made by experimental subjects in a minimum effort game. In control sessions, incentives are formulated as a...
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We experimentally test overconfidence in investment decisions by offering participants the possibility to substitute … their own for alternative investment choices. Overall, 149 subjects participated in two experiments, one with just one risky …
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In this paper we investigate how the experience of stock market shocks, like the COVID-19 crash, influences risk taking … behavior. To isolate changes in risk taking from a variety of other confounding factors during stock market crashes, we ran … experiment were 12 percent lower in March 2020 than in December 2019, even though their future price expectations did not change …
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We study intertemporal choices through an experiment that elicits a subject's plan and then tracks its implementation …
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variable is the particular decision stage at which a global risk is resolved: (i) before the investment decision; (ii) after … the investment decision, but before the resolution of the decision risk; (iii) after the resolution of the decision risk … problem involves the presence of a “global risk,” that is, a chance of losing everything whichever safe or risky option is …
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This paper provides a microfounded information acquisition technology based on a simple framework with information search. When searchable information is limited, an agent encounters increasingly more redundant information in his search for new information. Redundancy slows down the learning...
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This paper investigates the effect of vivid language on investor judgments. Recent research finds that investor judgments are significantly influenced by disclosure tone (positive versus negative). Holding tone constant, we investigate investors' reactions to vivid versus pallid information....
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In this paper we relate individual risk attitude as elicited by binary lotteries and certainty equivalents to market … certainty equivalents are poorly correlated. Only lottery choices are related to market behavior: the higher the degree of risk … aversion the lower the observed market activity. Females are more risk averse than males according to binary lotteries, submit …
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