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 …

This paper deals with the competencies of risk management professionals for assessing risk. Often such risk experts …, from a management perspective it is important to know the risk assessment competencies of these professionals and to know … how these could be biased. Or research focuses on the competencies of these risk management professionals and how they …

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 …

The paper examines in the laboratory how risk-taking situations are affected by the conditions of observing other …

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 …

choices being observed, compared to anonymity of choices, on risk taking in a laboratory experiment. I relate participants …' investments in a risky asset directly to social norms for risk taking that are elicited in an incentivized procedure. I find that … risk taking is not affected by the choice being observed by a matched participant. Nor do investments follow elicited norms …