Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/233182 
Year of Publication: 
2020
Citation: 
[Journal:] Business Research [ISSN:] 2198-2627 [Volume:] 13 [Issue:] 3 [Publisher:] Springer [Place:] Heidelberg [Year:] 2020 [Pages:] 1253-1291
Publisher: 
Springer, Heidelberg
Abstract: 
Decisions are often postponed even when future profits are not expected to compensate for the losses. This is especially relevant for financial and entrepreneurial disinvestment choices, as investors often have a disposition to hold on to losing assets for too long. We use an experiment with real real-options to study one possible behavioral motivation. Studies in psychology suggest that individuals have different styles of handling the stress involved in making decisions. We find that participants' styles of decision-making and risk aversion as well as the interaction of those can assist in predicting the likelihood that the participants will make investments and the timing of their disinvestment decisions. We also find the overall structure of the findings to be in line with a planner-doer model.
Subjects: 
Buck-passing
Conflict theory of decision-making Disinvestment decisions
Financial decisions
Player types
Realmonetary-stakes experiment
Risk aversion
Vigilance
Planner-doermodel
JEL: 
D03
D81
L26
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Document Type: 
Article

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