Payoff and presentation modulation of elicited risk preferences in MPLs

Sameh Habib (), Daniel Friedman, Sean Crockett () and Duncan James ()
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Sameh Habib: University of California, Santa Cruz
Sean Crockett: Baruch College
Duncan James: Fordham University

Journal of the Economic Science Association, 2017, vol. 3, issue 2, No 8, 183-194

Abstract: Abstract Since Holt and Laury (Am Econ Rev 92(5):1644–1655, 2002), the multiple price list (MPL) procedure has widely been used to elicit individual risk preferences. We assess the impact of varying list order and spacing, and of presentation via text or graphs. Relative to the original MPL baseline, some non-linear transformations of lottery prices systematically increase elicited risk aversion, while some graphical displays tend to reduce it.

Keywords: Multiple price list; Elicitation; Risk aversion; Experiment (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C91 D81 D89 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1007/s40881-016-0032-8

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