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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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Illusion of control as a source of poor diversification: Anexperimental approach

Fellner, Gerlinde - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> / Abteilung … - 2004

illusion of control. By forming their portfolio of tworisky lotteries and one risk-less alternative, subjects are requested to … investment. Also, offering adefault portfolio strongly determines final allocations. …

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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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Are preferences complete?An experimental measurement of indecisivenessunder risk

Danan, Eric; Ziegelmeyer, Anthony - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> / Abteilung … - 2006

We propose an experimental design allowing a behavioral test of the axiom ofcompleteness of individual preferences. The … preferences are significantly incomplete. We use lotteries as choice alternatives and we find that risk aversion is globally …

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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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Valuing Protection against Low Probability,High Loss Risks: Experimental Evidence

Morone, Andrea; Ozdemir, Ozlem - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> / Abteilung … - 2006

measure,(3)calculates relative risk aversion. The results of the experiment indicate that as theprobability of loss and loss …The study investigates protective responses in low probability and high loss risk situations.Particularly, it (1 … women) are found to be risk aversefor low probabilities. …

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Road Traffic Congestion and Public Information:An Experimental Investigation

Boun My, Kene; Denant-Boèmont, Laurent; Koessler, … - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> / Abteilung … - 2006

This paper reports two laboratory studies designed to study the impact of public informationabout past departure rates on congestion levels and travel costs. Our experimental design isbased on a discrete version of Arnott, de Palma, and Lindsey’s (1990) bottleneck model wheresubjects have to...

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Are preferences incomplete?An experimental study using flexible choices

Danan, Eric; Ziegelmeyer, Anthony - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> / Abteilung … - 2004

Completeness, the most commonly assumed axiom in preference theory,has not received much attention from the experimental literature. Indeed,incomplete preferences model a cognitive phenomenon (an agent's inabilityto compare alternatives), and therefore cannot be directly revealed throughchoice...

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