Myopic Loss Aversion under Ambiguity and Gender Effects
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Myopic Loss Aversion under Ambiguity and Gender Effects
Experimental evidence suggests that the frequency with which individuals get feedback information on their investments has an effect on their risk-taking behavior. In particular, when they are given information sufficiently often, they take less risks compared with a situation in which they are informed less frequently. We find that this result still holds when subjects do not know the probabil...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: PLOS ONE
سال: 2016
ISSN: 1932-6203
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0161477