An experimental investigation of imprecision attitude and its relation with risk attitude and impatience

Michèle Cohen, Jean-Marc Tallon and Jean-Christophe Vergnaud

Documents de travail du Centre d'Economie de la Sorbonne from Université Panthéon-Sorbonne (Paris 1), Centre d'Economie de la Sorbonne

Abstract: We report in this paper the result of three experiments on risk, ambiguity and time attitude. The first two differed by the population considered (students vs general population) while the third one used a different protocol and concerned students and portfolio managers. We find quite a lot of heterogeneity at the individual level. Of principal interest was the elicitation of risk, time and ambiguity attitudes and the relationship among these (model free) measures. We find that on the student population, there is essentially no correlation. A non negligible fraction of the population behaves in an extremely cautions manner in the risk and ambiguity domain. When we drop this population from the sample, the correlation between our measures is also non significant. We also raise three questions linked to measurement of ambiguity attitudes that come out from our data sets

Keywords: Experiments; risk aversion; impatience; imprecision aversion (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C90 C91 D81 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 26 pages
Date: 2009-03
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Working Paper: An experimental investigation of imprecision attitude and its relation with risk attitude and impatience (2011)
Working Paper: An experimental investigation of imprecision attitude and its relation with risk attitude and impatience (2011)
Working Paper: An experimental investigation of imprecision attitude and its relation with risk attitude and impatience (2009)
Working Paper: An experimental investigation of imprecision attitude and its relation with risk attitude and impatience (2009)
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