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. Using an experiment with online workers, we find that subjects choose the risky lottery rather than a sure payment …
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interaction of social preferences and risk, the first part of the experiment elicits subjects’ individual risk preferences. Here … experiment, subjects are randomly paired. The same choice problems are repeated but now the subject’s decisions also have … are determined by one random decision. The results indicate that many people are willing to bear more risk (or to forego a …
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, suggesting that social interaction or consultation improves the decision making process. Greater transparency for the decision … reflecting the structure of the preference relations. However, we do find some cases where the less difficult decision leads to a … higher rate of decision error, both for individuals and groups; we argue that this is consistent with the representativeness …
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to reduce these insurance gaps. We examine insurance decisions in a computer-administered experiment that makes several …. Third, we find that once people have made a decision, they tend to repeat it, demonstrating a strong preference for the …
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We experimentally test overconfidence in investment decisions by offering participants the possibility to substitute their own for alternative investment choices. Overall, 149 subjects participated in two experiments, one with just one risky asset, the other with two risky assets. Overconfidence...
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We report evidence of an endowment effect for risk, extending previous results to the popular paired-choice lottery setting. Specifically, we observe a distribution of revealed preferences consistent with risk aversion that diminishes in endowed variance, although the effect is considerably...
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This study presents basic analysis of individual preferences by experiment set and provides evidence that encounters … expected utility theory (EUT). The main focus of this study is the independence axiom on decision making under risk which is …
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account for both risky and intertemporal choices, and under the conditions of their experiment, found evidence supporting it … reason to be sceptical about the result is that the experiment was not properly powered up; hence the no-difference results …
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their dissimilarity from the perfectly rational decision making? How to rank subjects by risk attitudes? How to cluster …
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There is a large literature showing that willingness-to-accept (WTA) is usually much higher than willingness-to-pay (WTP) in empirical studies although they should be roughly equal according to traditional economic theory. A second stream of literature shows that people are typically ambiguity...
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