Measuring Individual Risk Attitudes in the Lab: Task or Ask? An Empirical Comparison
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- Jan-Erik Lönnqvist & Markku Verkasalo & Gari Walkowitz & Philipp C. Wichardt, 2011. "Measuring Individual Risk Attitudes in the Lab: Task or Ask?: An Empirical Comparison," SOEPpapers on Multidisciplinary Panel Data Research 370, DIW Berlin, The German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP).
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Keywords
Risk Attitudes; Trust; Personality; Lab Experiments;JEL classification:
- D81 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Criteria for Decision-Making under Risk and Uncertainty
- C91 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Design of Experiments - - - Laboratory, Individual Behavior
- Z10 - Other Special Topics - - Cultural Economics - - - General
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-CBE-2011-03-05 (Cognitive & Behavioural Economics)
- NEP-EXP-2011-03-05 (Experimental Economics)
- NEP-NEU-2011-03-05 (Neuroeconomics)
- NEP-UPT-2011-03-05 (Utility Models & Prospect Theory)
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