Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/271844 
Year of Publication: 
2023
Series/Report no.: 
CESifo Working Paper No. 10200
Publisher: 
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo), Munich
Abstract: 
We use four incentivized representative surveys to study the endowment effect for lotteries in 4,000 U.S. adults. We replicate the standard finding of an endowment effect–the divergence between Willingness to Accept (WTA) and Willingness to Pay (WTP), but document three new findings. First, we find little evidence that the endowment effect is related to loss aversion for risky prospects, counter to predictions of popular theories in economics. Second, WTA and WTP not only diverge, but are, at best, weakly correlated. Third, WTA and WTP strongly relate to other aspects of risk preferences. The structure of these behaviors points to different theories of the endowment effect.
Subjects: 
Willingness To Pay
Willingness to Accept
endowment effect
loss aversion
JEL: 
C90
D81
D91
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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