Artikel

Measuring risk‐taking and patience in financial decision making

We empirically compared the consistency among different kinds of measures for risk‐taking and patience in a survey and an experiment. We evaluated how these variables relate to financial decisions, using a novel set of easy‐to‐apply survey questions as proxy. The main finding is that our results based on the novel survey questions describing financial behavior and on lifelike financial behavior in the laboratory are very similar. Therefore, relatively low‐cost elicitation measures may be used to forecast decision making, which, in turn, may be described by our novel set of survey questions.

Language
Englisch

Bibliographic citation
Journal: Review of Financial Economics ; ISSN: 1873-5924 ; Volume: 40 ; Year: 2021 ; Issue: 1 ; Pages: 97-114

Classification
Wirtschaft
Subject
decision making
preferences
risk attitude
time preferences

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Breuer, Wolfgang
Renerken, Thomas
Salzmann, Astrid Juliane
Event
Veröffentlichung
(who)
Wiley
(where)
Hoboken, NJ
(when)
2021

DOI
doi:10.1002/rfe.1142
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  • Artikel

Associated

  • Breuer, Wolfgang
  • Renerken, Thomas
  • Salzmann, Astrid Juliane
  • Wiley

Time of origin

  • 2021

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