Incentive effects on risk attitude in small probability prospects

Economics Letters

Volumn 109, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 115-120

  Lefebvre, Mathieu ^a   Vieider, Ferdinand M ^b   Villeval, Marie Claire ^c,d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c GATE Lyon Saint Etienne   (France)

^d IZA   (Germany)

^e CCP   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Incentives; Prospect theory; Risk attitude

Indexed keywords

EID: 77957194370     PISSN: 01651765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2010.09.002     Document Type: Article

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