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Behavioral determinants of home bias : theory and experiment
Dlugosch, Dennis; Horn, Kristian; Wang, Mei - 2014 - This version: April 6, 2014
show a bias towards assets with a familiar or homeland label, the model does not hold. This misdiversification against the …
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Beyond information : disclosure, distracted attention, and investor behavior
Hillenbrand, Adrian; Schmelzer, André - 2015 - Working paper version: December 2015
investment behavior. In our experiment, subjects decide about investments into real-life mutual funds. We find that subjects …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011416914
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Disclosure, distracted attention, and investor behavior
Schmelzer, André - In: Essays on market design and regulation under bounded …, (pp. 59-94). 2017
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Memory recall bias of overconfident and underconfident individuals after feedback
Li, King King - In: Games 13 (2022) 3, pp. 1-15
We experimentally investigate the memory recall bias of overconfident (underconfident) individuals after receiving …). Second, awareness of one's overconfidence or underconfidence does not eliminate memory recall bias. Third, the primacy effect … is stronger than the recency effect. Overall, our results suggest that memory recall bias is mainly due to motivated …
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Causes, consequences, and cures of myopic loss aversion : an experimental investigation
Fellner, Gerlinde; Sutter, Matthias - 2005
Myopic loss aversion (MLA) has been established as one prominent explanation for the equity premium puzzle. In this paper we address two issues related to the effects of MLA on risky investment decisions. First, we assess the relative impact of feedback frequency and investment flexibility (via...
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Crowding-out the in-group bias : a nationalist policy paradox?
Heap, Shaun Hargreaves; Levi, Eugenio; Ramalingam, Abhijiit - 2020
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012321726
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Punishment with uncertain outcomes in the prisoner's dilemma
Dürsch, Peter; Servátka, Maroš - 2009
This paper experimentally investigates whether risk-averse individuals punish less if the outcome of punishment is uncertain than when it is certain. Our design includes three treatments: Baseline in which the one-shot prisoner’s dilemma game is played; Certain Punishment in which the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003863017
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Measuring time and risk preferences : realiability, stability, domain specificity
Wölbert, Eva; Riedl, Arno - 2013
To accurately predict behavior economists need reliable measures of individual time preferences and attitudes toward risk and typically need to assume stability of these characteristics over time and across decision domains. We test the reliability of two choice tasks for eliciting discount...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009772925
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Information acquisition and decisions under risk and ambiguity
Bergheim, Ralf - 2014
reduzieren. Die Studie untersucht, wie Risikoaversion, die Einstellung zu Ambiguität und verschiedene Persönlichkeitsmerkmale … individuelle Risikoaversion und die Einstellung zu Ambiguität einen signifikanten Einfluss auf die Informationsnachfrage haben …
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Compensating differentials in experimental labor markets
Carpenter, Jeffrey P.; Matthews, Peter Hans; Robbett, Andrea - 2015
The theory of compensating differentials has proven difficult to test with observational data: the consequences of selection, unobserved firm and worker characteristics, and the broader macroeconomic environment complicate most analyses. Instead, we construct experimental, real-effort labor...
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