We report on a laboratory experiment testing for the presence of loss aversion, as separate from risk aversion … loss by experimental participants. Our experimental design augments the Holt-Laury risk preference elicitation methodology … additional reluctance to participate in a mixed domain lottery beyond that predicted by risk aversion. We show that only …

explore this possibility, I develop a theory that unifies models of investment choice, informal risk sharing, and formal … financial contracts. I then test the predictions of this theory using a series of experiments with clients of a large … microfinance institution in India. The experiments confirm the theoretical predictions that joint liability creates two …

Prospect Theory (PT) and Constant Relative Risk Aversion (CRRA) have clear-cut implications for the optimal asset … allocation between stocks and the risk-free asset as a function of the investment horizon. While CRRA preferences imply that the …

Most textbook finance literature assumes risk to be the standard deviation of returns (volatility), which is not only … is consistent with investors’ actual perception of risk. Our method is presenting investors return distributions with … different risk characteristics for which they have to state their perceived risk and make investment decisions. Our results hint …

take risk as measured by the general risk question. We demonstrate that this disposition, which we call risk conception, is … strongly associated with optimism, a stable facet of personality, and that it predicts real-life risk taking. The general risk … question captures this disposition alongside pure risk preference. This likely contributes to the predictive power of the …

take risk as measured by the general risk question. We demonstrate that this disposition, which we call risk conception, is … strongly associated with optimism, a stable facet of personality and that it predicts real-life risk taking. The general risk … question captures this disposition alongside pure risk preference. This enlightens why the general risk question is a better …

extent observed team decisions under risk are actually consistent with the principles of rational choice, specifically the … individuals, teams accumulate significantly more expected value at a significantly lower total risk (measured in SD). We introduce … a team decision algorithm, excess-risk vetoing, that combines simple majority voting with the right to veto alternatives …

This paper analyzes the empirical risk tolerance of individuals. Rare empirical evidence shows the role of personal … behavior in both propensity toward financial risk and risk aversion. By using a test which mimics the financial decision … process in a laboratory setting for 445 individuals, we obtained an ex-post experimental measure for individual risk tolerance …