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Comment on "risk preferences are not time preferences": balancing on a budget line

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2015
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Epper, T., & Fehr-Duda, H. (2015). Comment on “risk preferences are not time preferences”: balancing on a budget line. American Economic Review, 105, 2261–2271. https://doi.org/10.1257/aer.20130420

Abstract

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Abstract

In a recent experimental study of intertemporal risky decision making, Andreoni and Sprenger (2012) find that subjects exhibit a preference for intertemporal diversification, which is inconsistent with discounted expected utility theory. It was claimed that their results are also at odds with models involving probability weighting, such as rank-dependent utility and cumulative prospect theory. Here we demonstrate, however, that rank-dependent probability weighting explains intertemporal diversification if decision makers care about po

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Balancing on a budget line : comment on Andreoni and Sprenger's 'Risk preferences are not time preferences'

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  • Epper, Thomas
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  • Fehr-Duda, Helga
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105

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7

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2261

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2271

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Keywords

Risk, decision making, utility theory, portfolio management, investments, behavioral research, prospect theory

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Discipline-based scholarship (basic research)

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English

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2015-07

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2015-11-06

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0002-8282

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Green

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merlin-id:12475

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329 since deposited on 2015-11-06
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158 since deposited on 2015-11-06
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Epper, T., & Fehr-Duda, H. (2015). Comment on “risk preferences are not time preferences”: balancing on a budget line. American Economic Review, 105, 2261–2271. https://doi.org/10.1257/aer.20130420

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