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| Title: | | Understanding the two components of risk attitudes: An experimental analysis  |
| Authors: | | Qiu, Jianying Steiger, Eva-Maria |
| Issue Date: | | 2010 |
| Series/Report no.: | | Jena economic research papers 2010,053 |
| Abstract: | | Cumulative Prospect Theory (PT) introduced the weighting of probabilities as an additional component to capture risk attitudes. However, this addition would be a less significant challenge to expected utility theory (EU) if utility curvature and probability weighting showed strong positive correlation. In that case the utility curvature in EU alone, while not properly describing risky behavior in general, would still capture most of the variance of individual risk aversion. This study provides experimental evidence that such a strong and positive correlation does not exist. Although most individuals exhibit concave utility and convex probability weighting, the two components show no strong positive correlation. |
| Subjects: | | risk attitudes cumulative prospect theory experimental study |
| JEL: | | C91 D81 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | Jena Economic Research Papers, MPI für Ökonomik
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