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Eliciting Discount Functions when Baseline Consumption changes over Time
Gerber, Anke; Rohde, Kirsten I.M. - Tinbergen Institute - 2009
preference reversals are commonly interpreted as contradicting constant discounting. We show that this interpretation is correct … discounting when baseline consumption changes over time, is that delaying an outcome has two simultaneous effects: (1) due to the … discount factor applied to this increase in utility. In order to draw conclusions about discounting one needs to disentangle …
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HIV/AIDS, Risk Aversion and Intertemporal Choice
Lammers, Judith; Wijnbergen, Sweder van - Tinbergen Institute - 2007
This study analyses the relation between perceived health status and intertemporal choice. We use data from experiments with real monetary rewards conduEted among students in South Africa to estimate risk and time preferences. These experimental data, based on muitiple price lists developed by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005137299
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Errors in Judicial Decisions
Sonnemans, Joep; Dijk, Frans van - Tinbergen Institute - 2008
In criminal cases the task of the judge is to transform the uncertainty about the facts into the certainty of the verdict. In this experiment we examine the relationship between evidence of which the strength is known, subjective probability of guilt and verdict for abstract cases. We look at...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005209452
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Performance Measurement, Expectancy and Agency Theory: An Experimental Study
Sloof, Randolph; Praag, Mirjam van - Tinbergen Institute - 2007
Theoretical analyses of (optimal) performance measures are typically performed within the realm of the linear agency model. This model implies that, for a given compensation scheme, the agent’s optimal effort is unrelated to the amount of noise in the performance measure. In contrast,...
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Investment, Resolution of Risk, and the Role of Affect
Winden, Frans van; Krawczyk, Michal; Hopfensitz, Astrid - Tinbergen Institute - 2008
This experimental study is concerned with the impact of the timing of the resolution of risk on people’s willingness to take risks, with a special focus on the role of affect. While the importance of anticipatory emotions has so far been only inferred from decisions regarding hypothetical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005144438
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Social Preferences in Private Decisions
Linde, Jona; Sonnemans, Joep - Tinbergen Institute - 2012
Social preference models were originally constructed to explain two things: why people spend money to affect the earnings of others and why the income of others influences reported happiness. We test these models in a novel experimental situation where participants face a risky decision that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009391881
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Separating Real Incentives and Accountability
Vieider, Ferdinand M. - Tinbergen Institute - 2008
In experimental investigations of the effect of real incentives, accountability—the implicit or explicit expectation of a decision maker that she may have to justify her decisions in front of somebody else—is often confounded with the incentives themselves. This confounding of accountability...
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Dynamic Choice, Independence and Emotions
Hopfensitz, Astrid; Winden, Frans van - Tinbergen Institute - 2006
From the viewpoint of the independence axiom of expected utility theory, an interesting empirical dynamic choice problem involves the presence of a “global risk,” that is, a chance of losing everything whichever safe or risky option is chosen. In this experimental study, participants have to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005042230
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A Dynamic Model of Investor Decision-Making: How Adaptation to Losses affects Future Selling Decisions
Lee, Carmen; Kraeussl, Roman; Lucas, André; Paas, … - Tinbergen Institute - 2008
According to disposition effect theory, people hold losing investments too long. However, many investors eventually sell at a loss, and little is known about which psychological factors contribute to these capitulation decisions. This study integrates prospect theory, utility maximization...
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A Dynamic Analysis of Moving Average Rules
Chiarella, Carl; He, Tony; Hommes, Cars H. - Tinbergen Institute - 2005
with high fitness. We characterize the stability and bifurcation properties of the underlying deterministic model via the …
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