economics and public policy. We conducted a laboratory experiment to investigate the effects of stress on financial decision …

Theory predicts that entrepreneurs have distinct attitudes towards risk and uncertainty, but empirical evidence is … perform a large "ab-in-the-field" experiment comparing entrepreneurs to managers - a suitable comparison group - and employees …

endowment effect experiment by eliciting both WTA and WTP from each of our 360 subjects (randomly selected customers of a car …

experiment among 100s of entrepreneurs, managers and employees. Our experimental results show that entrepreneurs are indeed more …

The theory of compensating differentials has proven difficult to test with observational data: the consequences of …. Instead, we construct experimental, real-effort labor markets and offer an evaluation of the theory in a controlled setting … differentials are affected by worker mobility and therefore selection. Consistent with the theory, we find that riskier firms must …

-averse investors buy more of the safe asset. Applying this intuition to incentive pay contracts, we develop a model and an experiment …

men. Design/methodology/approach - The authors conduct a scenario experiment with final-year business students in which …

such differences are driven by different attitudes towards competition. In our experiment subjects choose between a … ability ; experiment …