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Meta-analysis of empirical estimates of loss-aversion
Brown, Alexander L.; Imai, Taisuke; Vieider, Ferdinand M.; … - 2021
Loss aversion is one of the most widely used concepts in behavioral economics. We conduct a large-scale interdisciplinary meta-analysis, to systematically accumulate knowledge from numerous empirical estimates of the loss aversion coefficient reported during the past couple of decades. We...
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School choice and loss aversion
Meisner, Vincent; Wangenheim, Jonas von - 2019
Extensive evidence suggests that participants in the direct student-proposing deferred-acceptance mechanism (DSPDA) play dominated strategies. In particular, students with low priority tend to misrepresent their preferences for popular schools. To explain the observed data, we introduce...
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Coordination under loss contracts
Ahrens, Steffen; Bitter, Lea; Bosch-Rosa, Ciril - 2020
coordination when there is strategic uncertainty. We compare the choices made by experimental subjects in a minimum effort game. In …
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Income in Jeopardy : how losing employment affects the willingness to take risks/ Clemens Hetschko; Malte Preuss
Hetschko, Clemens; Preuss, Malte - 2015
Using German panel data, we assess the causal effect of job loss, and thus of an extensive income shock, on risk attitude. In line with predictions of expected utility reasoning about absolute risk aversion, losing oneś job reduces the willingness to take risks. This effect strengthens in...
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On measuring uncertainty and its impact on investment : cross-country evidence from the euro area
Meinen, Philipp; Röhe, Oke - 2016
many core economies. Focusing on the four largest euro-area countries, this paper investigates the role of uncertainty for … investment dynamics. By doing so, we compare five prominent uncertainty proxies put forward in the recent literature: the … uncertainty, and two indicators taking up the concept of (econometric) unpredictability. Although all uncertainty measures show …
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Show what you risk - norms for risk taking
Grimm, Stefan - 2018
Most economic decisions are embedded in a specific social context. In many such contexts, individual choices are influenced by their observability due to underlying social norms and social image concerns. This study investigates the impact of choices being observed, compared to anonymity of...
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Decision making under uncertainty : an experimental study in market settings
Echenique, Federico; Imai, Taisuke; Saito, Kota - 2019
We design and implement a novel experimental test of subjective expected utility theory and its generalizations. Our experiments are implemented in the laboratory with a student population, and pushed out through a large-scale panel to a general sample of the US population. We find that a...
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Risk, time pressure, and selection effects
Kocher, Martin; Schindler, David; Trautmann, Stefan T.; … - 2018
Time pressure is a central aspect of economic decision making nowadays. It is therefore natural to ask how time pressure affects decisions, and how to detect individual heterogeneity in the ability to successfully cope with time pressure. In the context of risky decisions, we ask whether a...
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Brexit, collective uncertainty and migration decisions
Auer, Daniel; Tetlow, Daniel - 2020
landscape. Uncertainty and perceptions are influential drivers when it comes to migration decisions, and yet, the literature … simultaneously associated with uncertainty perceptions. We leverage the British referendum of 2016 to leave the European Union as a … unique natural experiment to demonstrate how collective uncertainty, induced by national government policy, affects the …
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Behavioral Strong Implementation
Hayashi, Takashi; Jain, Ritesh; Korpela, Ville; … - 2021
Choice behavior is rational if it is based on the maximization of some context-independent preference relation. This study re-examines the questions of implementation theory in a setting where players’ choice behavior need not be rational and coalition formation must be taken into account. Our...
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