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The predictive power of risk elicitation tasks

This work reports an online experiment with a general-population sample examining the performance of budget-choice tasks for elicitation of risk attitudes. First, I compare the investment task of Gneezy and Potters (1997) with the standard choice- list method of Holt and Laury (2002), and evaluate their performance in terms of the number of correctly-predicted binary decisions in a set of out-of-sample lottery choices. There are no significant differences between the tasks in this sense, and performance is modest. Second, I included three additional budget-choice tasks (selection of a lottery from a linear budget set) where optimal decisions should have been corner solutions, and find that a large majority of participants provided interior solutions instead, casting doubts on subjects' understanding of tasks of this type.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: Working Paper ; No. 362

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Design of Experiments: Laboratory, Individual
Criteria for Decision-Making under Risk and Uncertainty
Survey Methods; Sampling Methods
Thema
risk preferences
elicitation methods
budget sets
portfolio choices

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Garagnani, Michele
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
University of Zurich, Department of Economics
(wo)
Zurich
(wann)
2020

DOI
doi:10.5167/uzh-190318
Handle
Letzte Aktualisierung
10.03.2025, 11:44 MEZ

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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Garagnani, Michele
  • University of Zurich, Department of Economics

Entstanden

  • 2020

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