Three essays based on Experimental Economics: incentives and risk
This thesis sheds light on two of the basic pillars of experimental economics: incentives and framing effects in decision making under risk. Experimental economists are strongly convinced of the importance of monetary incentives as a vital tool in order to motivate effort and improve performance. Ba...
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| Tipo de recurso: | tesis doctoral |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2019 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | CBUC, CESCA |
| Repositorio: | TDR. Tesis Doctorales en Red |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:www.tdx.cat:10803/667657 |
| Acceso en línea: | http://hdl.handle.net/10803/667657 http://dx.doi.org/10.6035/14102.2019.366685 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Experimental economics Incentives Risk preferences Cognitive biases Framing Overconfidence Ciències socials, periodisme i documentació 33 |
| Sumario: | This thesis sheds light on two of the basic pillars of experimental economics: incentives and framing effects in decision making under risk. Experimental economists are strongly convinced of the importance of monetary incentives as a vital tool in order to motivate effort and improve performance. Based on this, the effectiveness of different monetary incentive structures is analysed in order to increase students' academic performance and to study their overconfidence (both about their abilities and their performance). On the other hand, risk attitude is known to be a key determinant of various economic and financial choices, but it is usually measured with tasks that the literature suggests that may suffer from framing effects. Therefore, this investigation revisits framing effects, but taking into account other confounding factors that may have partly contaminated previous results obtained in the literature. |
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