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disclosed the payoff structure; (2) the choice treatment in the context of SDM under risk, where the decision makers are … distribution lead to robust deviations from maximisation. The results of the choice treatment show that the risk-averse decision …We everyday engage in the 'Small Decision Making (SDM).' This paper presents an experiment on SDM that consists of the …
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We argue that choices that are modified, absent any informational change, can be characterized as mistakes. In an experiment, we allow subjects to choose from budgets over binary lotteries. To identify mistakes, which we interpret as deviations from optimizing behavior, we allow subjects to...
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Most textbook finance literature assumes risk to be the standard deviation of returns (volatility), which is not only … is consistent with investors’ actual perception of risk. Our method is presenting investors return distributions with … different risk characteristics for which they have to state their perceived risk and make investment decisions. Our results hint …
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Despite the intuition that risk preferences affect intertemporal choice because the future is uncertain, time … that risk preferences are fully controlled for in the estimation of time discounting and no longer act as a confounder … despite accounting for the utility curvature—the established approach to control for risk preferences—about 43% of the …
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by a theory that captures responses to both the pure quality of decisions and the perceived luck of the decision maker …, in other words, a good decision with moral luck theory …Many economic agents, including CEOs, physicians, entrepreneurs, and political leaders are entrusted with decision …
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leader's decision of how much risk to take, we study the effects of two treatment variables: (1) whether group members can … selection mechanisms in group decision-making. In a setting where all members of a group get the same payoff based on the group …'s decision: the communicated preferences have a significant effect on the actual group decision only when the leader is appointed …
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Expected utility theory (EUT) is currently the standard framework which formally defines rational decision-making under … behaviour under utility theory is incompatible with scarcity of resources, making behaviour consistent with EUT irrational and …
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social context affected risk-taking behavior. Remotely, pairs take far fewer risks when the stakes are high than in the flesh …
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The recent literature on individual vs. group decisions over risk has brought about divergent results, mainly depending … members was required found collective decisions to be less risk averse than individual ones. Of course, these studies share …' preferences over risk using a consensus rule, i.e. leaving groups free to endogenously solve the potential disagreement among …
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overconfidence. Cognitive uncertainty represents a decision maker's uncertainty about her action optimality. We present a simple …
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