We study reputational herding in financial markets in a laboratory experiment. In the spirit of Dasgupta and Prat (2008 … employers. Employers can observe investment behavior, but not investors' ability types. Thereby, reputational incentives may …

risk and typically need to assume stability of these characteristics over time and across decision domains. We test the … reliability of two choice tasks for eliciting discount rates, risk aversion, and probability weighting and assess the stability of … largely uncorrelated with decisions in other important life domains involving intertemporal trade-offs and risk. …

-based questionnaire before the experiment and participants' preferences for resolution timing, risk, and time were incentive compatibly … measured during the experiment. Main findings are that delayed resolution can affect investment, that the effect depends on the …This experimental study is concerned with the impact of the timing of the resolution of risk on people's willingness to …

candidate is expectations: what people expect could affect how they feel about what actually occurs. In a real-effort experiment …

environments modify studentsf risk]taking attitudes. In Booth and Nolen (2012b), subjects are in years 10 and 11, while in Booth …

In a laboratory experiment, we measure subjects’ willingness to pay for a transparently useless decision right …

The theory of expected utility maximization (EUM) proposed by Bernoulli explains risk aversion as a consequence of … from the terms offered; and subjects often appear to be too risk averse with regard to small gambles (while still accepting … from judgments based on imprecise (and noisy) mental representation of the decision situation. In this model, risk aversion …

-informed others. This paper presents a controlled experiment showing that this "curse of knowledge" can cause comparative …