Abstract
Higher order risk preferences are important determinants of economic behaviour. We apply insights from behavioural economics: we measure higher order risk preferences for pure gains and losses. We find a reflection effect not only for second order risk preferences, like Kahneman and Tversky (1979), but also for higher order risk preferences: we find risk aversion, prudence and intemperance for gains, and much more risk loving preferences, imprudence and temperance for losses. These findings are at odds with a universal preference for combining good with bad or good with good, which previous results suggest may underlie higher order risk preferences.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 705-717 |
Journal | The Review of Economics and Statistics |
Volume | 104 |
Issue number | 4 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - Jul 2022 |
Keywords
- risk apportionment
- higher order risk preferences
- risk aversion
- prudence
- temperance
- reference dependence