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Risk attitudes and well-being in Latin America
Cardenas, Juan Camilo; Carpenter, Jeffrey - 2010
, Montevideo, San José. In addition to the experiment which reveals interesting cross-country differences, participants completed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274546
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Risk Attitudes and Well-Being in Latin America
Cardenas, Juan Camilo; Carpenter, Jeffrey P. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
, Montevideo, San José. In addition to the experiment which reveals interesting cross-country differences, participants completed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008683657
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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/10010333299
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The ratio bias phenomenon: fact or artifact?
Lefèbvre, Mathieu; Vieider, Ferdinand M.; Villeval, … - 2009
The ratio bias - according to which individuals prefer to bet on probabilities expressed as a ratio of large numbers to normatively equivalent or superior probabilities expressed as a ratio of small numbers - has recently gained momentum, with researchers especially in health economics...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277022
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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/10011451192
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282257
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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 - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 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/10010884182
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Information and Competition Entry
Ewers, Mara - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011279246
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The Ratio Bias Phenomenon: Fact or Artifact?
Lefèbvre, Mathieu; Vieider, Ferdinand M.; Villeval, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
The ratio bias – according to which individuals prefer to bet on probabilities expressed as a ratio of large numbers to normatively equivalent or superior probabilities expressed as a ratio of small numbers – has recently gained momentum, with researchers especially in health economics...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008527297
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The "bomb" risk elicitation task
Crosetto, Paolo; Filippin, Antonio - 2012
-scale experiment. Choices react significantly to the stakes and to the size of the choice set. Our experiment rationalizes the gender …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010287720