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Incentive effects on risk attitude in small probability prospects
Lefèbvre, Mathieu; Vieider, Ferdinand M.; Villeval, … - 2009
prospects in a laboratory experiment. Under low stakes, we find the typical risk seeking behavior for small probabilities … predicted by the prospect theory. But under high stakes, we provide some evidence that risk seeking behavior is dramatically …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277023
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Individual risk attitudes: new evidence from a large, representative, experimentally-validated survey
Dohmen, Thomas - 2005
the behavioral relevance of this survey measure by conducting a complementary field experiment, based on a representative …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267371
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A parametric analysis of prospect theory's functionals for the general population
Booij, Adam S.; van Praag, Bernard M. S.; van de … - 2009
This paper presents the results of an experiment that completely measures the utility function and probability …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277017
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Trust and trustworthiness under the prospect theory: A field experiment in Vietnam
Nguyen, Quang; Villeval, Marie-Claire; Xu, Hui - 2012
We study the influence of risk and time preferences on trust and trustworthiness by conducting a field experiment in … Vietnamese villages and by estimating the parameters of the Cumulative Prospect Theory and of quasi-hyperbolic time preferences …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010289986
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Framing Effects and Impatience: Evidence from a Large Scale Experiment
van der Heijden, Eline; Klein, Tobias J.; Müller, Wieland - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
We confront a representative sample of one 1,102 Dutch individuals with a series of incentivized investment decisions and also elicit their time preferences. There are two treatments that differ in the frequency at which individuals decide about the invested amount. The low frequency treatment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011271980
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Framing effects and impatience: Evidence from a large scale experiment
van der Heijden, Eline; Klein, Tobias J.; Müller, Wieland - 2012
We confront a representative sample of one 1,102 Dutch individuals with a series of incentivized investment decisions and also elicit their time preferences. There are two treatments that differ in the frequency at which individuals decide about the invested amount. The low frequency treatment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291450
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Higher Order Risk Preferences: New Experimental Measures, Determinants and Field Behavior
Schneider, Sebastian; Sutter, Matthias - 2020
We use a novel method to elicit and measure higher order risk preferences (prudence and temperance) in an experiment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012322445
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Mind, Behaviour and Health: A Randomised Experiment
Alem, Yonas; Behrendt, Hannah; Belot, Michèle; Bíró, … - 2016
experiment. The training technique we consider is a well-known psychological technique called "mindfulness", which is believed to … improve self-control and reduce stress. We conduct the experiment with 139 participants, half of whom receive a four …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011524950
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The Sound of Others: Surprising Evidence of Conformist Behavior
Crosetto, Paolo; Filippin, Antonio - 2015
It has been shown that subjects tend to follow others' behavior even when the external signals are uninformative. In this paper we go one step further, showing that conformism occurs even when the choices of others are not even presented to the subjects, but just indirectly perceived. We use the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010531723
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The Sound of Others: Surprising Evidence of Conformist Behavior
Crosetto, Paolo; Filippin, Antonio - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
It has been shown that subjects tend to follow others' behavior even when the external signals are uninformative. In this paper we go one step further, showing that conformism occurs even when the choices of others are not even presented to the subjects, but just indirectly perceived. We use the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011274368