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Measuring individual risk attitudes in the lab : task or ask? ; an empirical comparison
Lönnqvist, Jan-Erik; Verkasalo, Markku; Walkowitz, Gari; … - 2014
the lab — here the amount sent in a trust game (Berg, Dickaut, McCabe, 1995). As it turns out, the measures themselves are … correlations with a Big Five personality measure and is correlated with actual risk-taking behaviour. The results suggest that the …)experiments. Moreover, with respect to behaviour in the trust game, we find a high re-test stability of transfers (ρ = .70). This further …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010247341
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Measuring individual risk attitudes in the lab : task or ask? ; an empirical comparison
Lönnqvist, Jan-Erik; Verkasalo, Markku; Walkowitz, Gari; … - 2014
the lab - here the amount sent in a trust game (Berg, Dickaut, McCabe, 1995). As it turns out, the measures themselves are … correlations with a Big Five personality measure and is correlated with actual risk-taking behaviour. The results suggest that the …. Moreover, with respect to behaviour in the trust game, we find a high re-test stability of transfers (p = .70). This further …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010250131
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Measuring individual risk attitudes in the lab : task or ask? ; an empirical comparison
Lönnqvist, Jan-Erik; Verkasalo, Markku; Walkowitz, Gari; … - 2011 - This version: March 13, 2011
in the lab - here the amount sent in a trust game (Berg, Dickaut, McCabe, 1995). As it turns out, the measures themselves … shows the expected correlations with a Big Five personality measure and is correlated with actual risk-taking behaviour. The … in economic (lab) experiments. Moreover, with respect to trust, the high re-test stability of trust transfers ( ·= .70 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008939590
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Measuring individual risk attitudes in the lab : task or ask? An empirical comparison
Lonnqvist, Jan-Erik; Verkasalo, Markku; Walkowitz, Gari; … - In: Journal of economic behavior & organization : JEBO 119 (2015), pp. 254-266
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Does managerial personality matter? : evidence from firms in Viet Nam
Sharma, Smriti; Tarp, Finn - 2018
personality traits of owners/managers - risk attitudes, locus of control, and innovativeness - and firm-level decisions. We extend … capital by shedding light on the role of managerial personality characteristics for decision-making in firms in a dynamic …
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Confucianism and preferences : evidence from lab experiments in Taiwan and China
Liu, Elaine M.; Meng, Juanjuan; Wang, Joseph Tao-yi - 2013
This paper investigates how Confucianism affects individual decision making in Taiwan and in China. We found that Chinese subjects in our experiments became less accepting of Confucian values, such that they became significantly more risk loving, less loss averse, and more impatient after being...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010201272
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Social preferences under uncertainty
Gaudeul, Alexia - 2013
Willingness to take risk depends on whether the risk affects others as well as oneself and on how the risk affects oneś position vis-á-vis others. Taking a bet can improve oneś position relative to others or threaten it. We present an experiment that explores individual attitudes to lotteries...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009784058
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Separating attitudes towards money from attitudes towards probabilities : stake effects and ambiguity as a test for prospect theory
Vieider, Ferdinand M.; Cingl, Lubomír; Martinsson, Peter; … - 2013
Prospect theory (PT) is the dominant descriptive theory of decision making under risk today. For the modeling of choices, PT relies on a psychologically founded separation of risk attitudes into attitudes towards outcomes, captured in a value function; and attitudes towards probabilities,...
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Does self-control depletion affect risk attitudes?
Gerhardt, Holger; Schildberg-Hörisch, Hannah; … - 2015
A core prediction of recent "dual-self" models is that a person's risk attitudes depend on her current level of self-control. While these models have received a lot of attention, empirical studies tailored to testing their core prediction are lacking. Using two prominent models, we derive...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011449223
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Competition and subsequent risk-taking behaviour : heterogeneity across gender and outcomes
Filippin, Antonio; Gioia, Francesca - 2017
This paper studies if competition affects subsequent risk-taking behaviour by means of a laboratory experiment that manipulates the degree of competitiveness of the environment under equivalent monetary incentives. We find that competition increases risk aversion, especially for males, but not...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011664419