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The missing link: unifying risk taking and time discounting

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2018
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Epper, T., & Fehr-Duda, H. (2018). The missing link: unifying risk taking and time discounting (No. 96; Working Paper Series / Department of Economics).

Abstract

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Abstract

Standard economic models view risk taking and time discounting as two independent dimensions of decision makers' behavior. However, mounting experimental evidence demonstrates the existence of robust and systematic interaction effects. There are striking parallels in patterns of risk taking and time discounting behavior, which suggests that there is a common underlying force driving these interactions. Here we show that decision makers' anticipation of something going wrong in the future conjointly with their proneness to probability

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  • Epper, Thomas
  • Fehr-Duda, Helga

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Working paper series / Department of Economics

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Working Paper

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D91

Keywords

Risk taking, time discounting, probability weighting, decreasing impatience, increasing risk tolerance, preference for late resolution of uncertainty, preference for one-shot resolution of uncertainty, Risiko, Risikobereitschaft, Entscheidung bei Risiko, Entscheidungsfindung, Zeitpräferenz

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Discipline-based scholarship (basic research)

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English

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2018-10

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2012-11-13

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68

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1664-7041

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Revised version

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Green

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merlin-id:7436

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403 since deposited on 2012-11-13
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498 since deposited on 2012-11-13
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Epper, T., & Fehr-Duda, H. (2018). The missing link: unifying risk taking and time discounting (No. 96; Working Paper Series / Department of Economics).

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