Prospect Theory is a widely accepted descriptive framework to model decisions under risk. However, it is limited to situations with finitely many outcomes. Moreover, it is discontinuous, i.e., small changes in a lottery can produce large differences in its utility, contrary to experiments. In...

We present results from the rst large-scale international surveyon time discounting, conducted in 45 countries. Cross-country varia-tion cannot simply be explained by economic variables such as interestor ination rates. In particular, we nd strong evidence for culturaldierences, as measured by...

We conduct a laboratory experiment to study whether people in-tuitively use real-option strategies in a dynamic investment setting.The participants were asked to play as an oil manager and make pro-duction decisions in response to a simulated mean-reverting oil price.Using cluster analysis,...

Two experiments investigated impacts of hazard types and information deliveries on riskperception, with a focus on the role of emotions. In the first experiment, technologicalhazards aroused stronger emotions, and were considered as riskier than natural hazards. Nodifferences were found between...

We conducted a survey on risk perception of investment products in the German-speakingarea of Switzerland. Unlike the typical two-factor structure documented in the previousliterature, we found that the knowledge-related scales were highly correlated with the riskrelatedscales, whereas the...

The aim of this study is to examine the underlying dimensions of self-stated attitudesand behaviour concerning everyday financial affairs, and classify individuals basedon those dimensions. A questionnaire was answered by 1282 respondents in the German-speaking part of Switzerland. The sample of...

Using the upper price limit-hitting events, in the Shanghai Stock Exchange in China, as the basis for comparison, we find that limit-hitting stocks in the top-ten ranking list of daily returns attract investors' attention, and bring about significant abnormal return in excess of those...

This paper studies the differences in stock market reaction to the same kind of disease-related news by analyzing abnormal returns of global stock markets during Public Health Risk Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC) announcements. Drawing the data from 26 stock market indices over the...

We extend the original form of Prospect Theory by Kahneman and Tversky from finite lotteries to arbitrary probability distributions, thus paving the way for applications in economics and finance. Moreover, we suggest a method how to incorporate a crucial step of the quot;editing phasequot; into...