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. …

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

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

predicted, we find in a laboratory public goods experiment a robust association between stronger self-control and higher levels …

In economic models, risk and social preferences are major determinants of criminal behavior. In criminology, low self … relationship between self-control and both risk and social preferences. To exogenously vary the level of self-control, we use a … well-established experimental manipulation. We find that low self-control causes less risk-averse behavior. The effect of …

Building on a theoretical model we test the hypothesis that effort choices and preferences for redistribution are … tend to have smaller incentives to engage in effort, the reverse does not hold true. Using a lab experiment, we show that …

Extending the die rolling experiment of Fischbacher and Föllmi-Heusi (2013), we compare gender effects with respect to …