Risk Aversion in Experiments
Author: G.W. Harrison
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
Published: 2008-02-29
Total Pages: 449
ISBN-13: 1849505470
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPresents research utilizing laboratory experimental methods in economics.
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Author: G.W. Harrison
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
Published: 2008-02-29
Total Pages: 449
ISBN-13: 1849505470
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPresents research utilizing laboratory experimental methods in economics.
Author: Charles R. Plott
Publisher: Elsevier
Published: 2008-08-21
Total Pages: 1175
ISBN-13: 0444826424
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhile the field of economics makes sharp distinctions and produces precise theory, the work of experimental economics sometimes appears blurred and may produce uncertain results. The contributors to this volume have provided brief notes describing specific experimental results.
Author: Jana Sadeh
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Published: 2018
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Glenn W. Harrison
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Published: 2008
Total Pages: 0
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKDoes individual behavior in a laboratory setting provide a reliable indicator of behavior in a naturally occurring setting? We consider this general methodological question in the context of eliciting risk attitudes. The controls that are typically employed in laboratory settings, such as the use of abstract lotteries, could lead subjects to employ behavioral rules that differ from the ones they employ in the field. Since it is field behavior that we are interested in understanding, those controls might be a confound in themselves if they result in differences in behavior. We find that the use of artificial monetary prizes provides a reliable measure of risk attitudes when the natural counterpart outcome has minimal uncertainty, but that it can provide an unreliable measure when the natural counterpart outcome has background risk. These results are consistent with conventional expected utility theory for the effects of background risk on attitudes to risk. Behavior tended to be risk-loving when artificial monetary prizes were used or when there was minimal uncertainty in the natural non-monetary outcome. But subjects drawn from the same population were risk-averse when their attitudes were elicited using the natural non-monetary outcome that had some background risk. Theory predicts this effect of background risk, but not the change from risk-loving to risk-aversion.
Author: Mark Machina
Publisher: Newnes
Published: 2013-11-14
Total Pages: 897
ISBN-13: 0444536868
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe need to understand the theories and applications of economic and finance risk has been clear to everyone since the financial crisis, and this collection of original essays proffers broad, high-level explanations of risk and uncertainty. The economics of risk and uncertainty is unlike most branches of economics in spanning from the individual decision-maker to the market (and indeed, social decisions), and ranging from purely theoretical analysis through individual experimentation, empirical analysis, and applied and policy decisions. It also has close and sometimes conflicting relationships with theoretical and applied statistics, and psychology. The aim of this volume is to provide an overview of diverse aspects of this field, ranging from classical and foundational work through current developments. Presents coherent summaries of risk and uncertainty that inform major areas in economics and finance Divides coverage between theoretical, empirical, and experimental findings Makes the economics of risk and uncertainty accessible to scholars in fields outside economics
Author: Richard B. McKenzie
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2009-10-21
Total Pages: 319
ISBN-13: 3642015867
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMainstream economists everywhere exhibit an "irrational passion for dispassionate rationality." Behavioral economists, and long-time critic of mainstream economics suggests that people in mainstrean economic models "can think like Albert Einstein, store as much memory as IBM’s Big Blue, and exercise the will power of Mahatma Gandhi," suggesting that such a view of real world modern homo sapiens is simply wrongheaded. Indeed, Thaler and other behavioral economists and psychology have documented a variety of ways in which real-world people fall far short of mainstream economists' idealized economic actor, perfectly rational homo economicus. Behavioral economist Daniel Ariely has concluded that real-world people not only exhibit an array of decision-making frailties and biases, they are "predictably irrational," a position now shared by so many behavioral economists, psychologists, sociologists, and evolutionary biologists that a defense of the core rationality premise of modedrn economics is demanded.
Author: Michał Wiktor Krawczyk
Publisher: Rozenberg Publishers
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 171
ISBN-13: 903610145X
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Publisher: Rozenberg Publishers
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 174
ISBN-13: 9036101190
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Glenn W. Harrison
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Published: 1986
Total Pages: 9
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: G.W. Harrison
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
Published: 2008-02-29
Total Pages: 449
ISBN-13: 0762313846
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPresents research utilizing laboratory experimental methods in economics.