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We ran a field experiment to investigate whether nudge policies, consisting in behavioural insight messaging, help to … improve performance in financial trading. Our experiment involved students enrolled in a financial trading course in an …
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prospects in a laboratory experiment. Under low stakes, we find the typical risk seeking behavior for small probabilities … section for very small amounts. -- Risk attitude ; incentives ; decision ; experiment …
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. -- Ratio bias ; financial incentives ; error rates ; experiment …
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The favorite-longshot bias describes the longstanding empirical regularity that betting odds provide biased estimates of the probability of a horse winning – longshots are overbet, while favorites are underbet. Neoclassical explanations of this phenomenon focus on rational gamblers who overbet...
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An experiment by Tversky and Kahneman (1981) illustrates that people's tendency to evaluate risky decisions separately …. The theory is accompanied by both a real-stakes laboratory experiment and a large-sample survey from the general U ….S. population. Replicating Tversky and Kahneman's original experiment where decisionmakers with prototypical prospect …
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, and differential responses to luck account for about half of the gender performance gap in our experiment. These findings … into tournaments at a lower rate than men. -- Behavioral preferences ; real effort experiment ; gender differences ; gender …
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We report the results of a laboratory experiment testing for the existence of loss aversion in a standard risk aversion … protocol (Holt and Laury, 2002). In our experiment, participants earn and retain money for a week before using it in an …
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conditions. We therefore designed a survey experiment to evaluate how economic change in conjunction with different elite frames … by income group and partisanship. Our survey experiment - carried out in the UK - demonstrates that poor economic …
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exchange. The experiment tightly tests the predictions of Kőszegi and Rabin (2006), as when the probability of forced exchange …
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. -- framing ; choice under risk ; time preference ; experiment …
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