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Ambiguity and Excuse-Driven Behavior in Charitable Giving
Garcia, Thomas; Massoni, Sebastien; Villeval, Marie Claire - 2019
importance of excuse-driven behavior is comparable under ambiguity and under risk. Individuals exploit any type of uncertainty as … individuals use this ambiguity strategically as a moral wiggle room to act less generously without feeling guilty. Such excuse …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012180062
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Do Measures of Risk Attitude in the Laboratory Predict Behavior Under Risk in and Outside of the Laboratory?
Charness, Gary - 2019
We consider the external validity of laboratory measures of risk attitude. Based on a large-scale experiment using a … laboratory risky financial decisions, and (ii) behavior in naturally-occurring field behavior under risk (financial, health and … employment decisions). We find that measures of risk attitude are related to behavior in laboratory financial decisions and the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012868010
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Do Measures of Risk Attitude in the Laboratory Predict Behavior Under Risk In and Outside of the Laboratory?
Charness, Gary - 2019
We consider the external validity of laboratory measures of risk attitude. Based on a large-scale experiment using a … laboratory risky financial decisions, and (ii) behavior in naturally-occurring field behavior under risk (financial, health and … employment decisions). We find that measures of risk attitude are related to behavior in laboratory financial decisions and the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012868969
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Intergenerational attitudes towards strategic uncertainty and competition: A field experiment in a Swiss bank
Madiès, Thierry; Villeval, Marie Claire; Wasmer, Malgorzata - In: European Economic Review 61 (2013) C, pp. 153-168
With a market entry game inspired by Camerer and Lovallo (1999), we study the attitudes of junior and senior employees towards strategic uncertainty and competition. Seniors exhibit higher entry rates compared to juniors, especially when the market capacity is not too low or when earnings from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010665916
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Aging and Attitudes Towards Strategic Uncertainty and Competition: An Artefactual Field Experiment in a Swiss Bank
Madies, Thierry; Villeval, Marie Claire; Wasmer, Malgorzata - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
stereotype of risk averse and less competitive older employees. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884197
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Aging and attitudes towards strategic uncertainty and competition: An artefactual field experiment in a Swiss bank
Madies, Thierry; Villeval, Marie Claire; Wasmer, Malgorzata - 2012
stereotype of risk averse and less competitive older employees. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010287655
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Trust and Trustworthiness under the Prospect Theory: A Field Experiment in Vietnam
Nguyen, Quang; Villeval, Marie Claire; Xu, Hui - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
We study the influence of risk and time preferences on trust and trustworthiness by conducting a field experiment in …. We find that while probability sensitivity or risk aversion do not affect trust, loss aversion influences trust … indirectly by lowering the expectations of return. Also, more risk averse and less present biased participants are found to be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010711936
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Do Measures of Risk Attitude in the Laboratory Predict Behavior under Risk in and outside of the Laboratory?
Charness, Gary; Garcia, Thomas; Offerman, Theo; … - 2019
We consider the external validity of laboratory measures of risk attitude. Based on a large-scale experiment using a … laboratory risky financial decisions, and (ii) behavior in naturally-occurring field behavior under risk (financial, health and … employment decisions). We find that measures of risk attitude are related to behavior in laboratory financial decisions and the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012059125
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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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Incentive Effects on Risk Attitude in Small Probability Prospects
Lefèbvre, Mathieu; Vieider, Ferdinand M.; Villeval, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
Most studies on the role of incentives on risk attitude report data obtained from within-subject experimental … paper reports instead between-subject results on the effect of monetary stakes on risk attitudes for small probability … prospects in a laboratory experiment. Under low stakes, we find the typical risk seeking behavior for small probabilities …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008527318