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Loss aversion has been used to explain why a high equity premium might be consistent with plausible levels of risk … similarly to investors with high risk aversion. But if so, should these agents not perceive larger gains from international … diversification than standard expected-utility preference agents with plausible levels of risk aversion? They might not, because …
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-informed others. This paper presents a controlled experiment showing that this "curse of knowledge" can cause comparative …
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negotiation situations. We report the results of a laboratory experiment that was designed to isolate the effect of the curse of …
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-time-search laboratory experiment. The controlled environment that subjects face is stationary, and the payoff-maximizing reservation wage is …
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Prior laboratory experiments have studied general equilibrium economies constructed from "induced preferences" for artificial goods. We introduce new methods that allow us to study economies constructed instead from subjects' actual, "homegrown" preferences. Our subjects reveal their preferences...
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asset portfolio considerations. Based on the modified exchange market pressure index, the paper also proposes a global risk … response index, which reflects the country-specific sensitivity of capital flow pressures to measures of global risk aversion …. For a large sample of countries over time, we demonstrate time variation in the effects of global risk on exchange market …
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In this paper, we design an investment game which allows us to study the influence of selection when learning from … others. Using the theoretical study of selection neglect in Jehiel (2018) as a guide, we test (i) for the presence of … selection neglect in this investment context, and (ii) some comparative static predictions of the model. We find strong evidence …
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) multiple price list. Parametric and non-parametric measures of risk preferences are found to shift towards risk neutrality for …
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depletion should increase framing effects. To test this we designed two experiments in which we depleted participants' willpower …
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reduce free riding. In this paper we report an attempt to reproduce the findings of Mas and Moretti in a lab experiment. Lab … productivity of colleagues whom they observe. Although the subjects in our experiment are aware of the productivity of others and …
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