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Locus of control and consistent investment choices
Pinger, Pia; Schäfer, Sebastian; Schumacher, Heiner - 2018
outcomes. Our evidence is based on an experiment in which subjects repeatedly invest in two identical, uncorrelated, risky …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011865329
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Does self-control depletion affect risk attitudes?
Gerhardt, Holger; Schildberg-Hörisch, Hannah; … - 2015
within a particular range. We test the hypotheses in a lab experiment with a large number of subjects (N = 308), using a well …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011449223
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The individual and joint performance of economic preferences, personality, and self-control in predicting criminal behavior
Friehe, Tim; Schildberg-Hörisch, Hannah - 2014
We explore the individual and joint explanatory power of concepts from economics, psychology, and criminology for criminal behavior. More precisely, we consider risk and time preferences, personality traits from psychology (Big Five and locus of control), and a self-control scale from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010235856
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Asset integration, risk taking and loss aversion in the laboratory
Morrison, William G.; Oxoby, Robert J. - 2019
We report on a laboratory experiment testing for the presence of loss aversion, as separate from risk aversion …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011997618
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Risky choices and solidarity : why experimental design matters
Wunsch, Conny; Strobl, Renate - 2018
attributions of responsibility for neediness from other explanations. We implement our design in a lab experiment we conducted with …
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Loss aversion and lying behavior : theory, estimation and empirical evidence
Garbarino, Ellen; Slonim, Robert; Villeval, Marie-Claire - 2016
We theoretically show that agents with loss-averse preferences facing a decision to receive a bad financial payoff if they report honestly or to receive a better financial payoff if they report dishonestly are more likely to lie to avoid receiving the low payoff the lower the ex-ante probability...
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Same process, different outcomes : group performance in an acquiring a company experimen
Casari, Marco; Zhang, Jingjing; Jackson, Christine - 2015
It is still an open question when groups perform better than individuals in intellective tasks. We report that in an Acquiring a Company game, what prevailed when there was disagreement among group members was the median proposal and not the best proposal. This aggregation rule explains why...
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True overconfidence, revealed through actions : an experiment
Cheung, Stephen L.; Johnstone, Lachlan - 2017
We report an experiment that infers true overconfidence in relative ability through actions, as opposed to reported …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011612902
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Risk preferences are not time preferences : comment
Cheung, Stephen L. - 2012
Andreoni and Sprenger (in press) report evidence that distinct utility functions govern choices under certainty and risk. I investigate the robustness of their result to the experimental design. I find that the effect disappears completely when a multiple price list is used instead of a convex...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009575158
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Information and competition entry
Ewers, Mara - 2012
experiment. We investigate whether information provision attracts mainly high productivity individuals and reduces competition … decision problem and to update beliefs about success. In the experiment, subjects face the choice between a competition game …. -- competition ; experiment ; information ; overconfidence ; self-assessment ; self-selection ; tournament …
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