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Am I my peer‘s keeper? : social responsibility in financial decision making
Füllbrunn, Sascha; Luhan, Wolfgang J. - 2015
Decision makers often take risky decisions on the behalf of others rather than for themselves. Competing theoretical models predict both, higher as well as lower levels of risk aversion when taking risk for others, and the experimental evidence is mixed. In our within-subject design, money...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010519127
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Investment, resolution of risk, and the role of affect
Winden, Frans A. A. M. van; Krawczyk, Michal; … - 2008
This experimental study is concerned with the impact of the timing of the resolution of risk onpeople's willingness to take risks, with a special focus on the role of affect. While the importanceof anticipatory emotions has so far been only inferred from decisions regarding hypothetical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011374397
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An experimental test of precautionary bidding
Kocher, Martin; Pahlke, Julius; Trautmann, Stefan T. - 2010
Auctions often involve goods exhibiting a common knowledge ex-post risk that is independent of buyers' private values or their signals regarding common value components. Esö and White (2004) showed theoretically that ex-post risk leads to precautionary bidding for DARA bidders: Agents reduce...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008749646
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Social preferences under risk : ex-post fairness vs. efficiency
Gaudeul, Alexia - 2015
Social lotteries are lotteries that are played along with someone else. The experimental literature indicates that risk attitudes depend on how one’s situation in the safe alternative compares to that of a peer. Evaluation of the risky alternative also depends on whether the lottery gives...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011295782
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Decision-making traits and states as determinants of risky choices
Gärtner, Manja; Tinghög, Gustav; Västfjäll, Daniel - 2019
We test the effects of dual processing differences in both individual traits and decision states on risk taking. In an experiment with a large representative sample (N = 1,832), we vary whether risky choices are induced to be based on either emotion or reason, while simultaneously measuring...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012118611
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Feedback in tournaments under commitment problems : theory and experimental evidence
Gürtler, Oliver; Harbring, Christine - 2007
in equilibrium the principal reveals in-termediate information regarding the agents' previous performances if these … her information. Having presented our formal analysis, we test these results using data from laboratory experiments. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010365864
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Explanations or advice : the impact of financial literacy on information acquisition behavior
Sprenger, Julia - 2016
financial decision? A laboratory experiment investigates the way external information is integrated into the decision making … process. The objective is to explore the link between financial literacy and information acquisition behavior. The results … with a higher demand for external information but give up this strategy when the information environment is restricted to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011514485
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Social Preferences in Private Decisions
Linde, Jona; Sonnemans, Joep - 2012
Social preference models were originally constructed to explain two things: why people spend money to affect the earnings of others and why the income of others influences reported happiness. We test these models in a novel experimental situation where participants face a risky decision that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010326434
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Social Preferences in Private Decisions
Linde, Jona; Sonnemans, Joep - Tinbergen Institute - 2012
Social preference models were originally constructed to explain two things: why people spend money to affect the earnings of others and why the income of others influences reported happiness. We test these models in a novel experimental situation where participants face a risky decision that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009391881
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Social Preferences in Private Decisions
Linde, Jona; Sonnemans, Joep - Tinbergen Instituut - 2012
Social preference models were originally constructed to explain two things: why people spend money to affect the earnings of others and why the income of others influences reported happiness. We test these models in a novel experimental situation where participants face a risky decision that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011257303