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This paper reports the results of an experiment that brings together psychological measures of competence and … ambiguous lotteries in a financial decision context. The experiment can be viewed in two parts. The first part replicates an … used to explain elicited certainty equivalents in the second part of the experiment. Certainty equivalents were elicited …
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This thesis deals with standard and behavioral perspectives on the role of expectations in individual decision making. Chapter 2 considers the influence of subjective expectations on insurance demand. The analysis takes a standard approach by arguing that the subjective risk assessment of the...
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We examine the relationship between confidence in own absolute performance and risk attitudes using two confidence elicitation procedures: self-reported (non-incentivised) confidence and an incentivised procedure that elicits the certainty equivalent of a bet based on performance. The former...
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We propose a novel way of measuring trust in institutions, which draws on the experimental method used to elicit time preferences. Our measure is provided in the meaningful metric of the subjective probability of trustworthiness of the trustee. In a lab‐in‐the‐field setting in the...
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