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We conduct an experiment to study the prevalence of the higher order risk attitudes of prudence and temperance, in a … individual’s level of prudence is predictive of his wealth, saving, and borrowing behavior outside of the experiment, while …
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Abstract: Using a dataset for a demographically representative sample of the Dutch population, containing a revealed preference risk attitude measure, as well as very detailed information about participants’ religious background, we study three issues raised in previous literature. First, we...
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performance. Results from a laboratory experiment corroborate this prediction. This paper highlights the limits of monetary …
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an experiment that aims to (1) compare how common quantile decision making is relative to expected utility maximization …, and (2) estimate risk attitude parameters under the assumption of quantile preferences. The experiment has two parts. In …
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We study financial contagion in an experimental market. There are two assets and an exogenous shock reduces the value of one of the two assets. Whether and how the other asset is affected depends on the correlation between the underlying values of the two assets. In some trials, the...
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they are less likely to update their goals to take into account their improving performance as they repeat the task. …
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Abstract: We report results from three well-known experimental paradigms, where we use time, rather than money, as the salient component of subjects’ incentives. The three experiments, commonly employed to study social preferences, are the dictator game, the ultimatum game and the trust game....
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New Keynesian dynamic stochastic general equilibrium models are the principal paradigm currently employed for central bank policymaking. In this paper, we construct experimental economies, populated with human subjects, with the structure of a New Keynesian DSGE model. We give individuals...
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the asset can be traded. Our experiment has two treatments, one in which a spot market operates on its own, and a second …
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the asset can be traded. Our experiment has two treatments, one in which a spot market operates on its own, and a second …
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