Detecting Heterogeneous Risk Attitudes with Mixed Gambles

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ID Serval
serval:BIB_DEEC1A05C0BB
Type
Article: article d'un périodique ou d'un magazine.
Collection
Publications
Institution
Titre
Detecting Heterogeneous Risk Attitudes with Mixed Gambles
Périodique
Theory and Decision
Auteur⸱e⸱s
Santos-Pinto L., Bruhin A., Mata J., Astebro T.
ISSN
0040-5833
Statut éditorial
Publié
Date de publication
02/2015
Peer-reviewed
Oui
Volume
79
Numéro
4
Pages
573-600
Langue
anglais
Résumé
We propose a task for eliciting attitudes toward risk that is close to real-world risky decisions which typically involve gains and losses. The task consists of accepting or rejecting gambles that provide a gain with probability p and a loss with probability 1−p . We employ finite mixture models to uncover heterogeneity in risk preferences and find that (i) behavior is heterogeneous, with one half of the subjects behaving as expected utility maximizers, (ii) for the others, reference-dependent models perform better than those where subjects derive utility from final outcomes, (iii) models with sign-dependent decision weights perform better than those without, and (iv) there is no evidence for loss aversion. The procedure is sufficiently simple so that it can be easily used in field or lab experiments where risk elicitation is not the main experiment.
Mots-clé
Individual risk-taking behavior, Latent heterogeneity, Finite mixture models, Reference-dependence, Loss aversion
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