investment game allows us to test the robustness of the findings. We find a very consistent result that women invest less, and … economic issues. We assemble the data from 15 sets of experiments with one simple underlying investment game. Most of these … thus appear to be more financially risk averse than men. …

We report the results of an experiment designed to study whether or not having experienced booms and crashes in …

Myopic loss aversion (MLA) has been found to play a persistent role for investment behavior under risk. We study …

individuals in the investment task; content analysis of group discussions reveals that higher risk-taking in groups is positively …We investigate experimentally the effect of consultation (unincentivized advice) on choices under risk in an … incentivized investment task. We compare consultation to two benchmark treatments: one with isolated individual choices, and a …

economically important ways. To test this, we designed a controlled experiment using first year college students who made choices …Single-sex classes within coeducational environments are likely to modify students’ risk-taking attitudes in …

experiment, we find that higher report scores are associated with an increased use of the representativeness heuristic … second experiment show that more intuitive decision makers rely more often on the “reinforcement heuristic” where successful …

study whether the demand for foreign currency loans is driven by a lack of knowledge about the exchange rate risk emanating … information on agents’ knowledge about exchange rate risk. Results show, first, that a majority of respondents is aware that … depreciations increase loan installments. Second, we find that knowledge about the exchange rate risk exerts a strong impact on the …