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We propose a method to measure the intensity of risk aversion, prudence (downside risk aversion) and temperance (outer risk aversion) in experiments. Higher-order risk compensations are defined within the proper risk apportionment model of Eeckhoudt and Schlesinger [American Economic Review, 96...
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potentially confounding decision biases. …
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-strategic decisions, even when no outgroup exists, and I relate the effects of group membership on individual decisions to joint decision … same as team decisions. This finding bridges the literature on team decision making and on group membership effects. …
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Recently proposed models of risky choice imply systematic violations of transitivity of preference. Five studies explored whether people show patterns of intransitivity predicted by four descriptive models. To distinguish ?true? violations from those produced by ?error,? a model was fit in which...
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In dieser Arbeit werden die verschiedenen Anreize für Manager im Vergleich zu Unternehmenseignern untersucht, Innovationen durchzuführen. Bei den Anreizen treten gegenläufige Effekte der Innovationsanstrengungen auf. Unsere Untersuchung über die Determinanten des Innovationserfolges liefert...
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variable is the particular decision stage at which a global risk is resolved: (i) before the investment decision; (ii) after … the investment decision, but before the resolution of the decision risk; (iii) after the resolution of the decision risk …. Dependent on the timing of the global risk different combinations of anticipated and experienced emotions influence decision …
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This study attempts to combine two traditional fields in microeconomics: individual decision making under risk and … decision making in an interpersonal context. The influence of social comparison on risky choices is explored in an experiment … lower than all possible payoffs of the decision maker. In the neutral context social referent and decision maker will always …
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This experimental study is concerned with the impact of the timing of the resolution of risk onpeople's willingness to take risks, with a special focus on the role of affect. While the importanceof anticipatory emotions has so far been only inferred from decisions regarding hypothetical...
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As societies are increasingly concerned with social risks, it is important to evaluate risks not only from an individual perspective, but also from a societal one. Many increases in social risk involve a simultaneous increase in risk and inequality. This paper presents an experiment which...
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situation where participants face a risky decision that affects only their own earnings. In the social (individual) treatment …
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