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Abstract
Advice is important for decision making, especially in the financial sector. We investigate how individuals assess risk preferences of others given sociodemographic information or pictures. Both non-professionals and fi nancial professionals participate in this artefactual field experiment. Subjects mainly rely on the other's self-assessment of risk preferences and on gender when forming the belief about someone else's risk preferences. On average, subjects consider themselves to be more risk-tolerant than the person they evaluate. Subjects use their own risk attitude as a reference point for predicting others' risk preferences. This false consensus eff ect is less pronounced for young professionals than for senior and non-professionals. Furthermore, financial professionals predict risk preferences more accurately compared to non-professionals.
Dokumententyp: | Arbeitspapier |
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Erstellungsdatum: | 03 Aug. 2012 14:14 |
Erscheinungsjahr: | 2012 |
Institute/Einrichtungen: | Fakultät für Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften > Alfred-Weber Institut |
DDC-Sachgruppe: | 330 Wirtschaft |
Freie Schlagwörter: | Risk Preferences , Financial Advice , Artefactual Field Experiment , Behavioral Finance |
Schriftenreihe: | Discussion Paper Series / University of Heidelberg, Department of Economics |