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The endowment effect in games
Drouvelis, Michalis; Sonnemans, Joep - 2015
experiment, we study the endowment effect in lotteries with the same payoffs as the games in the first part. Our findings provide …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011339153
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Information acquisition and decisions under risk and ambiguity
Bergheim, Ralf - 2014
This paper experimentally investigates individual information acquisition and decisions in ambiguous situations in which the degree of ambiguity can endogenously and individually be decreased by the subjects. In particular, I analyze how risk aversion, ambiguity attitude and personality traits...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010357825
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The individual and joint performance of economic preferences, personality, and self-control in predicting criminal behavior
Friehe, Tim; Schildberg-Hörisch, Hannah - 2014
We explore the individual and joint explanatory power of concepts from economics, psychology, and criminology for criminal behavior. More precisely, we consider risk and time preferences, personality traits from psychology (Big Five and locus of control), and a self-control scale from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010235856
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Deciding for others reduces loss aversion
Andersson, Ola; Holm, Håkan J.; Tyran, Jean-Robert; … - 2013
We study risk taking on behalf of others, both with and without potential losses. A large-scale incentivized experiment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010125960
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Giving in the face of risk
Cettolin, Elena; Riedl, Arno; Tran, Giang - 2016
interact in such situations. In this paper we provide experimental evidence on this question. In a first experiment givers are … the realized state of the world. In a second experiment, risk affects the earnings of givers but not of beneficiaries. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011565561
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Does self-control depletion affect risk attitudes?
Gerhardt, Holger; Schildberg-Hörisch, Hannah; … - 2015
within a particular range. We test the hypotheses in a lab experiment with a large number of subjects (N = 308), using a well …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011449223
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Intuition and reasoning in choosing ambiguous and risky lotteries
Bergheim, Ralf; Roos, Michael W. M. - 2013
processes we do not find that those subjects showing ambiguity aversion in an urn experiment based on Halevy (2007 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010188142
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The ratio bias phenomenon : fact or artifact?
Lefebvre, Mathieu; Vieider, Ferdinand M.; Villeval, … - 2009
. -- Ratio bias ; financial incentives ; error rates ; experiment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003910098
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Thinking in Chinese vs. thinking in English : social preference and risk attitudes of multicultural minds
Li, King King - 2010
This paper investigates whether language priming activates different cultural identities and norms associated with the language communicated; bilingual subjects are given Chinese instructions in the Chinese treatment and English instructions in the English treatment. The main findings are: (1) in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008688574
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Oligopoly as a socially embedded dilemma : an experiment
Engel, Christoph; Zhurakhovska, Lilia - 2011
expected. -- Oligopoly ; Collusion ; experiment ; Uncertainty ; negative externalities ; prisoner's dilemma …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008822475