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Exploiting the Central Environmental Inspections (CEI) in China as a quasi-natural experiment, we find that public firms in polluting industries experience significant gain in both profitability and market valuation after the regulatory shock, relative to firms in nonpolluting industries. The...
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options approach and the classical investment theory can predict farmers’ investment behaviors. We also examine differences in … classical investment theory. The presence of a price floor and learning from personal experience during the experiment do not …
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We propose the Virtual Bingo Blower (VBB) as a way to generate credible risk and ambiguity in computerized experiments …
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Current decision-making models assume that an individual's attitude towards risk does not vary across different sources … result suggests that individuals are subject to knowledge illusion in decisions under risk, constituting source …-dependent risk attitudes. We document that knowledge illusion stems from the wrongly assigned importance of perceived expertise in …
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previous studies that found a negative relation between cognitive ability and risk aversion into perspective and in particular … show that cognitive ability is related to noisy behavior rather than risk preferences. We also find age and education to be … and more robustly correlated to risk preferences …
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This study examines risk premia in a laboratory market featuring a long-lived asset. The research is enabled by …, statistically significant risk premia are reported, in support of standard asset pricing models. Potential determinants of the risk … premia are investigated. These risk premia are not sensitive to expected variance, but do vary positively with the magnitude …
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long horizons. We present an experiment comparing decision making under certainty, risk, and ambiguity, over a shorter … lifecycle. Results show that behavior in the ambiguity treatment is markedly different than in the risk condition and it is …
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This paper uses laboratory experiments to study subjects’ assessment of uncertainty resulting from strategic and non-strategic decisions of other players. Nonstrategic events are defined by the colors of balls drawn from urns, whereas strategic events are defined by the action choice in Stag...
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