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Deciding for Others Reduces Loss Aversion

In English

Författare

Summary, in English

We study risk taking on behalf of others, both when choices involve losses and when they do not. A large-scale incentivized experiment with subjects randomly drawn from the Danish population is conducted. We find that deciding for others reduces loss aversion. When choosing between risky prospects for which losses are ruled out by design, subjects make the same choices for themselves as for others. In contrast, when losses are possible, we find that the two types of choices differ. In particular, we find that subjects who make choices for themselves take less risk than those who decide for others when losses loom. This finding is consistent with an interpretation of loss aversion as a bias in decision making driven by emotions and that these emotions are reduced when making decisions for others.

Publiceringsår

2016

Språk

Engelska

Sidor

29-36

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

Management Science

Volym

62

Issue

1

Dokumenttyp

Artikel i tidskrift

Förlag

Informs

Ämne

  • Economics

Nyckelord

  • risk taking
  • loss aversion
  • experiment

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISSN: 0025-1909