Negative recency, randomization device choice, and reduction of compound lotteries

Economics Letters

Volumn 115, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 263-267

  Kaivanto, Kim ^a   Kroll, Eike B ^b  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Design of experiments; Law of small numbers; Myopic loss aversion; Negative recency effect; Reduction of compound lotteries; St. Petersburg paradox

Indexed keywords

EID: 84855799082     PISSN: 01651765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2011.12.078     Document Type: Article

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