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prospects involving both gains and losses. In an experiment we find that risk aversion for gains is robust under time pressure … whereas risk seeking for losses turns into risk aversion under time pressure. For mixed prospects, subjects become more loss …
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marginal utility for wealth necessarily is facilitated by a risk premium function that only robustly is parameterized with … reference to `relative safety', as opposed to `relative riskiness' of assets, a risk premium function that then explicitly is …). Robustness of the finding is evident in arrival at a parameterization of loss aversion (a concave risk premium function) that is …
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This paper focuses on egocentric biases in financial decisions. Subjects first designa portfolio, whereby each combination of assets yields the same expected returnand variance of returns. They are then confronted with two alternative portfolios;the average portfolio and the portfolio of one’s...
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Loss aversion is traditionally defined in the context of lotteries over monetary payoffs. This paper extends the notion of loss aversion to a more general setup where outcomes (consequences) may not be measurable in monetary terms and people may have fuzzy preferences over lotteries, i.e. they...
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experiment where the decision maker draws twice with replacement in the typical Ellsberg two-color urns, but with a different … utility all predict unequivocally that risk-averse decision makers (DMs) will avoid the 50 - 50 urn that exhibits the highest … risk conceivable, while risk-seeking DMs do the opposite. However, we observe a substantial number of violations in the …
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paper we address two issues related to the effects of MLA on risky investment decisions. First, we assess the relative … impact of feedback frequency and investment flexibility (via the investment horizon) on risky investments. Second, given that … we observe higher investments with a longer investment horizon, we examine conditions under which investors might …
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