Paper #361

Título:

Does risk aversion or attraction depend on income? An experiment

Autores:

Antoni Bosch-Domènech y Joaquim Silvestre

Fecha:

Febrero 1999

Resumen:

Does risk attitude (aversion or attraction) vary with the level of the income at risk? About half of our subjects chose to insure all levels, whereas another half chose instead not to insure low levels, but to insure high levels.

Palabras clave:

Experimental economics, risk aversion, risk attraction, income risks, Leex

Códigos JEL:

C9, D8

Área de investigación:

Economía Experimental y del Comportamiento

Publicado en:

Economics Letters, 65, 3, (1999)

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