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Empirical studies in family economics usually rely on questionnaires, statistical or panel data. Here we try to study experimentally some crucial aspects of engaging in a marriage. First the female partner can end the relationship or suggest one of the two forms of joint venture. Whereas a full...
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This paper presents a general theory that works out the relation between coherent risk measures, valuation bounds, and … preferences, in the way many coherent risk measures are somewhat generic. -- coherent risk rneasures ; valuation bounds …
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report on the results of a controlled experiment with real objects at stake. Worry was measured with the Worry Domains …
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Experimental studies of risk and time-preference typically focus on one of the two phenomena. The goal of this paper is … to investigate the (possible) correlation between subjects' attitude to risk and their time-preference. For this sake we … the subjects for the three lotteries, we test how time and risk preferences are interrelated. Since the time interval …
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low or no risk-aversion, but put very high value on the opportunity to sell the lottery in every stage of the decision … problem. There is evidence that risk attitudes depend on whether they are measured by comparing the certainty equivalent and … the expected value of a lottery or by preferences over mean-preserving spreads. -- Dynamic decisions ; risk taking …
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the correspondence of different experimental risk elicitation methods. Overall, 64 participants traded two assets on eight …) found little correspondence between different experimental risk elicitation methods. -- Prospect Theory ; Framing … ; Disposition Effect ; Financial Markets ; Risk Attitude …
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In this paper individual overconfidence within the context of an experimental asset market is investigated. Overall, 72 participants traded one risky asset on six markets of 12 participants each. The results indicate that individuals were not generally overconfident. Moreover, overconfidence was...
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In this experimental study of tax evasion and its determinants participants earn their income in a complex stochastic intertemporal environment including the possibility to invest into a risky asset. The earned income has to be declared in four tax returns which are randomly verified. If tax...
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future nominal values via a cost of living index is an appropriate way to handle the problem of real income risk. Nonetheless … rational individual always voluntarily purchase protection against such risk? A model is developed to shed some light on this … aspect. It shows that the optimal behaviour depends - as expected - on the cost of protection and the risk preferences of the …
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An investor faced with a contingent claim may eliminate risk by (super-)hedging in a financial market. As this is often … quite expensive, we study partial hedges, which require less capital and reduce the risk. In a previous paper we determined … the shortfall risk defined as the expectation of the shortfall weighted by some loss function. The resulting efficient …
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