Naturally occurring preferences and exogenous laboratory experiments: A case study of risk aversion

Econometrica

Volumn 75, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 433-458

  Harrison, Glenn W ^a   List, John A ^b   Towe, Charles ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Background risk; Field experiments; Laboratory experiments; Risk aversion

Indexed keywords

EID: 33847384554     PISSN: 00129682     EISSN: 14680262     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0262.2006.00753.x     Document Type: Article

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