Risk-assessment and risk-taking in various forms are among the most important tasks financial professionals face in … domain) on risk-taking, predominantly among students. In a series of experiments set in different contextual frameworks, we … effect in risk-taking than the general population. Interestingly, for domain-specific risk-taking in a finance context, we …

differently than individuals as they rely significantly less on useless outside advice from "experts" and choose the risk … the risk-free investment more often and are slightly more prone to the hot hand belief than groups of two male subjects. …

Risk-assessment and risk-taking in various forms are among the most important tasks financial professionals face in … domain) on risk-taking, predominantly among students. In a series of experiments set in different contextual frameworks, we … effect in risk-taking than the general population. Interestingly, for domain-specific risk-taking in a finance context, we …

differently than individuals as they rely significantly less on useless outside advice from “experts” and choose the risk … the risk-free investment more often and are slightly more prone to the hot hand belief than groups of two male subjects. …

Investor behavior was shown to be considerably different when the risk-return tradeoff is presented by experience … investors are faced with multiple decisions over time and are consequently able to adjust the risk level they initially chose … new form of risk simulation in which wealth paths over time are presented rather than just final outcomes. After investors …

mutual funds they manage. First, we find that fund managers' risk tolerance positively correlates with fund risk when … accounting for fund benchmark, fund category, and other controls. Second, we show that fund managers' ambiguity tolerance … abilities generate these returns at lower risk. …

We investigate how the experience of extreme events, such as the COVID-19 market crash, influence risk-taking behavior …. To isolate changes in risk taking from other factors, we ran controlled experiments with finance professionals in … risky during the crash than before. This lower perceived risk is likely due to adaptive normalization as the volatility …

We investigate how volatility shocks affect investors' risk-taking, risk perception and forecasts. We run artefactual … investments are negatively associated with the price change and performance of the stock and their perceived risk increases to a … similar extent following shocks of all directions. Students' risk perception, in contrast, is more closely related to the …

In this paper we investigate how volatility shocks influence investors' perceptions about a stock's risk, its future … shocks to increase risk similarly, while students do not perceive upwardlytrending shocks to increase the riskiness of the …