Arbeitspapier

Individual-level loss aversion in riskless and risky choices

Loss aversion can occur in riskless and risky choices. Yet, there is no evidence whether people who are loss averse in riskless choices are also loss averse in risky choices. We measure individual-level loss aversion in riskless choices in an endowment effect experiment by eliciting both WTA and WTP from each of our 360 subjects (randomly selected customers of a car manufacturer). All subjects also participate in a simple lottery choice task which arguably measures loss aversion in risky choices. We find substantial heterogeneity in both measures of loss aversion. Loss aversion in the riskless choice task and loss aversion in the risky choice task are highly significantly and strongly positively correlated. We find that in both choice tasks loss aversion increases in age, income, and wealth, and decreases in education.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: CeDEx Discussion Paper Series ; No. 2010-20

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Design of Experiments: Laboratory, Individual
Field Experiments
Criteria for Decision-Making under Risk and Uncertainty
Thema
loss aversion
endowment effect
field experiments
Entscheidung bei Risiko
Risikoaversion
Altersgruppe
Einkommen
Vermögen
Bildungsniveau

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Gächter, Simon
Johnson, Eric J.
Herrmann, Andreas
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
The University of Nottingham, Centre for Decision Research and Experimental Economics (CeDEx)
(wo)
Nottingham
(wann)
2010

Handle
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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Gächter, Simon
  • Johnson, Eric J.
  • Herrmann, Andreas
  • The University of Nottingham, Centre for Decision Research and Experimental Economics (CeDEx)

Entstanden

  • 2010

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