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There is a large literature showing that willingness-to-accept (WTA) is usually much higher than willingness-to-pay (WTP) in empirical studies although they should be roughly equal according to traditional economic theory. A second stream of literature shows that people are typically ambiguity...
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Recent health policy reforms try to increase consumer choice. We use a laboratory experiment to analyze consumers …’ tastes in typical contract attributes of health insurances and to investigate their relationship with individual risk … elicit individual risk preferences according to Cumulative Prospect Theory. Applying a latent class model to the choice data …
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it. The present experiment (N = 95) tests for such framing effects in a multiple price list task (MPL). Numeric risk …The most common experimental methods to elicit risk aversion present the decision maker with a menu of lotteries and … (a pie chart or bar graph). Literature on risk communication suggests that alternative but equivalent numeric formats (e …
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In this paper, we propose and examine the de-biasing effect of self-distancing on loss aversion. In a laboratory setting, subjects made a set of binary decisions on whether to participate in a mixed gamble. Stemmed from the psychological literature on self-distancing, we manipulated the degree...
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given a large per-experiment endowment rather than when the endowment is given per-period. Risk-aversion and non …
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We report on a laboratory experiment testing for the presence of loss aversion, as separate from risk aversion … loss by experimental participants. Our experimental design augments the Holt-Laury risk preference elicitation methodology … additional reluctance to participate in a mixed domain lottery beyond that predicted by risk aversion. We show that only …
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interest. Our experiment finds a significant effect of language ambiguation on subjects who are competent Bayesian updaters …
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This paper studies individuals' preference for reducing advantageous inequality in the distribution of gains and losses. Combining the inequality aversion model of Fehr and Schmidt (1999) with loss aversion à la Kahneman and Tversky (1979), we predict the relative dislike for advantageous...
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Does the extent of cheating depend on a proper reference point? We use a real effort task that implements a two (gain versus loss frame) times two (monitored performance versus unmonitored performance) between-subjects design to examine whether cheating is reference-dependent. Our experimental...
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