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We use data on households' deductible choices in auto and home insurance to estimate a structural model of risky choice that incorporates standard risk aversion (concave utility over final wealth), loss aversion, and nonlinear probability weighting. Our estimates indicate that nonlinear...
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Motivated by individuals' emotional response to risk at different time horizons, we model an 'anxious' agent - one who is more risk averse with respect to imminent risks than distant risks. Such preferences describe well-documented features of 1) individual behavior, 2) equilibrium prices, and...
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This paper provides a comprehensive analysis regarding strategic interaction under expectation-based loss-aversion. First, we develop a coherent framework for the analysis by extending the equilibrium concepts of Koszegi and Rabin (2006, 2007) to strategic interaction and demonstrate how to...
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We use a repeated incentivized risk experiment in rural Thailand to test determinants of changes in the level of …
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Evidence from studies in international relations, the politics of reform, collective action and price competition suggests that economic agents in social dilemma situations cooperate more to avoid losses than in the pursuit of gains. To test whether the prospect of losses can induce cooperation,...
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Evidence from studies in international relations, the politics of reform, collective action and price competition suggests that economic agents in social dilemma situations cooperate more to avoid losses than in the pursuit of gains. To test whether the prospect of losses can induce cooperation,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011626601
of advertising content as it compares in magnitude to the effect of price. We analyze a direct mail field experiment in …
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experiences? We report on a field experiment designed to address this question. Incumbent clients of a lender in South Africa were …
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A common premise in both the theoretical and policy literatures on development is that people remain poor because they …, Montevideo, San José. In addition to the experiment which reveals interesting cross-country differences, participants completed …
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A common premise in both the theoretical and policy literatures on development is that people remain poor because they …, Montevideo, San José. In addition to the experiment which reveals interesting cross-country differences, participants completed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009155585