Delaney, Liam; Fink, Günther; Harmon, Colm - School of Economics, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences - 2014
The ways in which preferences respond to the varying stress of economic environments is a key question for behavioral … economics and public policy. We conducted a laboratory experiment to investigate the effects of stress on financial decision … intelligence tests as cognitive stressors, we find that stress increases subjective discounting rates, has no effect on the degree …