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Effects of Stress on Economic Decision-Making: Evidence from Laboratory Experiments

Delaney, Liam; Fink, Günther; Harmon, Colm P. - 2014

intelligence tests as cognitive stressors, we find that stress increases subjective discounting rates, has no effect on the degree …The ways in which preferences respond to the varying stress of economic environments is a key question for behavioral … economics and public policy. We conducted a laboratory experiment to investigate the effects of stress on financial decision …

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A lab test on the decision not to decide

Schade, Christian D.; Snir, Avichai - In: Business Research 13 (2020) 3, pp. 1253-1291

in psychology suggest that individuals have different styles of handling the stress involved in making decisions. We find …

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Siblings, not triplets: social preferences for risk, inequality and time in discounting climate change

Atkinson, Giles D.; Dietz, Simon; Helgeson, Jennifer; … - 2009

Arguments about the appropriate discount rate often start by assuming a Utilitarian social welfare function with isoelastic utility, in which the consumption discount rate is a function of the (constant) elasticity of marginal utility along with the (much discussed) utility discount rate. In...

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Siblings, not triplets: social preferences for risk, inequality and time in discounting climate change

Helgeson, Jennifer; Dietz, Simon; Atkinson, Giles D.; … - In: Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 3 (2009) 2009-26, pp. 1-28

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Internal and External Validity of Experimental Risk and Time Preferences

Belzil, Christian; Sidibé, Modibo - 2016

, quasi-hyperbolic discounting as well as subjective failure probability over future payments. We investigate the predictive …

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Welfare as Simple(x) Equity Equivalents

Berger, Loïc; Emmerling, Johannes - 2017

Inequity plays a fundamental role in the evaluation of social welfare in many dimensions. We revisit the concept of inequity, whether across states of world (uncertainty), across individuals (inequality) and across generations (intergenerational equity), using a common framework generalizing the...

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Econographics

Chapman, Jonathan; Dean, Mark; Ortoleva, Pietro; … - 2018

We study the pattern of correlations across a large number of behavioral regularities, with the goal of creating an empirical basis for more comprehensive theories of decision-making. We elicit 21 behaviors using an incentivized survey on a representative sample (n = 1;000) of the U.S....

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