2016-05-01
Risky choice in the limelight
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The Review of Economics and Statistics , Volume 98 - Issue 2 p. 318- 332
This paper examines how risk behavior in the limelight differs from that in anonymity. In two separate experiments, we find that subjects are more risk averse in the limelight. However, risky choices are similarly path dependent in the different treatments. Under both limelight and anonymous laboratory conditions, a simple prospect theory model with a path-dependent reference point provides a better explanation for subjects' behavior than a flexible specification of expected utility theory. In addition, our findings suggest that ambiguity aversion depends on being in the limelight, that passive experience has little effect on risk taking, and that reference points are determined by imperfectly updated expectations.
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doi.org/10.1162/REST_a_00505, hdl.handle.net/1765/85035 | |
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Organisation | Erasmus University Rotterdam |
Baltussen, G., van den Assem, M., & van Dolder, D. (2016). Risky choice in the limelight. The Review of Economics and Statistics, 98(2), 318–332. doi:10.1162/REST_a_00505 |