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Illusion of Expertise in Portfolio Decisions:An Experimental Approach

Fellner, Gerlinde; Güth, Werner; Maciejovsky, Boris - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> / Abteilung … - 2001

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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Risk Attitude and Market Behavior:Evidence from Experimental Asset Markets

Fellner, Gerlinde; Maciejovsky, Boris - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> / Abteilung … - 2002

In this paper we relate individual risk attitude as elicited by binary lotteriesand certainty equivalents to market … equivalents are poorly correlated. Only lottery choices are relatedto market behavior: the higher the degree of risk aversion the … lower theobserved market activity. Females are more risk averse than males accordingto binary lotteries, submit fewer offers …

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Overconfidence in Investment Decisions:An Experimental Approach

Dittrich, Dennis; Güth, Werner; Maciejovsky, Boris - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> / Abteilung … - 2001

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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Framing Effects, Selective Information andMarket Behavior An Experimental Analysis

Kirchler, Erich; Maciejovsky, Boris; Weber, Martin - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> / Abteilung … - 2004

The results of an asset market experiment, in which 64 subjects trade two assets oneight markets in a computerized …

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THE EQUITY HOME BIAS: CONTRASTING AN INSTITUTIONAL WITH A BEHAVIORAL EXPLANATION

Fellner, Gerlinde; Maciejovsky, Boris - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> / Abteilung … - 2003

An empirically well-established finding is that equity portfolios are concentratedin the domestic equity market of the investor. Previous theoreticaland empirical analyses have mainly focused on institutional explanations andlargely neglected individual behavior. In this study we report the...

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Specious Confidence after Tax Audits: A Contribution to theDynamics of Compliance

Kirchler, Erich; Maciejovsky, Boris; Schwarzenberger, … - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> / Abteilung … - 2003

a tax experiment. Compliance varied significantlyover time: it decreased immediately after an audit and increased …

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Are we nice(r) to nice(r) people? An Experimental Analysis

Albert, Max; Güth, Werner; Kirchler, Erich; … - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> / Abteilung … - 2002

We experimentally investigate whether individuals can reliably detect cooperators in an anonymous decision environment by allowing participants to condition their choices in an asymmetric prisoner's dilemma and a trust game (i) on their partner's donation share to a self-selected charity, and...

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Hindsight Bias and Individual RiskAttitude within the Context ofExperimental Asset Markets

El-Sehity, Tarek; Haumer, Hans; Helmenstein, Christian; … - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> / Abteilung … - 2002

the different experimental risk elicitationmethods of certainty equivalents and binary lottery choices, and (iii) their … general phenomenon. Furthermore,our findings challenge the presumption of time-stable risk preferences and of … proceduralinvariance with respect to different experimental risk elicitation methods. …

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The Effect of Monetary Feedback and Information Spillovers onCognitive Errors: Evidence from Competitive Markets

Budescu, David V.; Maciejovsky, Boris - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> / Abteilung … - 2004

reflect random aberrations or systematic biases. One straightforward way toapproach this question is to test their persistence …

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Reasoning and Institutions: Do Markets Facilitate LogicalReasoning in the Wason Selection Task?

Budescu, David V.; Maciejovsky, Boris - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> / Abteilung … - 2003

A vast literature shows that individuals frequently fail to identify the normative solutionsin logical reasoning tasks. Much attention has been devoted to the study ofthese deviations at the individual level; less effort was exerted to investigate whetherinstitutional settings might facilitate...

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