Previous research has found considerable variation in risk taking behavior within individuals across tasks. In this paper, we develop a hypothesis derived from the psychology literature that such apparently inconsistent behavior can be explained by a subject's domain specific risk attitudes. To...

This paper estimates the degree of risk aversion of contestants appearing on Vas o No Vas, the Mexican version of Deal or No Deal. We consider both dynamic agents who fully backward induct and myopic agents that only look forward one period. Further, we vary the level of forecasting...

This study measures risk attitudes using two paid experiments: the Holt and Laury (2002) procedure and a variation of the game show Deal or No Deal. The participants also completed a series of personality questionnaires developed in the psychology literature including the risk domains of Weber,...