Attitudes toward Private and Collective Risks in Individual and Strategic Choice Situations

Geoffrey Brennan, Werner Güth (), Luis G. Gonzalez and Maria Vittoria Levati ()

Discussion Papers on Strategic Interaction from Max Planck Institute of Economics, Strategic Interaction Group

Abstract: Idiosyncratic risk attitudes are usually assumed to be commonly known and restricted to own payoffs. However, the alternatives faced by a decision maker often involve risks for others' payoffs as well. Motivated by the importance of other-regarding preferences in social interactions, this paper explores idiosyncratic attitudes toward own and others' risks. We elicit risk attitudes in an experiment involving choices with and without strategic interaction.

Keywords: Other-regarding concerns; Random price mechanism; Public goods experiments (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C90 D63 D81 H41 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
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Date: Written 2005-09
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