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The predictive power of risk elicitation tasks

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2020
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Garagnani, M. (2020). The predictive power of risk elicitation tasks (No. 362; Working Paper Series / Department of Economics). https://www.econ.uzh.ch/en/research/workingpapers.html?paper-id=1044

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Abstract

This work reports an online experiment with a general-population sample examining the performance of budget-choice tasks for elicitation of risk attitudes. First, I compare the investment task of Gneezy and Potters (1997) with the standard choicelist method of Holt and Laury (2002), and evaluate their performance in terms of the number of correctly-predicted binary decisions in a set of out-of-sample lottery choices. There are no significant differences between the tasks in this sense, and performance is modest. Second, I included thr

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  • Garagnani, Michele

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Working paper series / Department of Economics

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Working Paper

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C83

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Risk preferences, elicitation methods, budget sets, portfolio choices

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Discipline-based scholarship (basic research)

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English

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2020-09

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2020-09-25

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22

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1664-705X

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merlin-id:19809

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Garagnani, M. (2020). The predictive power of risk elicitation tasks (No. 362; Working Paper Series / Department of Economics). https://www.econ.uzh.ch/en/research/workingpapers.html?paper-id=1044

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