Money does not induce risk neutral behavior, but binary lotteries do even worse

Theory and Decision

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 211-249

  Selten, Reinhard ^a   Sadrieh, Abdolkarim ^a   Abbink, Klaus ^a  

^a Lab Experimentelle Wirtsch Forsch   (Germany)

Author keywords

Binary lottery payoffs; Choices under risk; Design of experiments; Experimental economics; Risk preferences

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001518429     PISSN: 00405833     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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