Alternative payoff mechanisms for choice under risk

James Cox, Vjollca Sadiraj and Ulrich Schmidt

No 1932, Kiel Working Papers from Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW Kiel)

Abstract: Most experiments on decision theory ask individual subjects to make more than one decision. The isolation hypothesis is commonly used to justify the choice of the random lottery incentive mechanism as the preferred payoff protocol. This research note reports on the main findings on the theoretical and empirical performance of different payoff mechanisms on eliciting individuals' attitudes toward risk. It challenges the conventional view that the random lottery incentive mechanism introduces no biases in inducing risk preferences.

Date: 2014
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