Hindsight Bias and Individual Risk Attitude within the Context of Experimental Asset Markets

20 Pages Posted: 6 Nov 2002

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Tarek Josef el Sehity

Institute of Psychology; Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies

Hans Haumer

Wealth Architecture GmbH

Christian Helmenstein

Institute for Advanced Studies

Erich Kirchler

University of Vienna - Faculty of Psychology; Institute for Advanced Studies, Vienna

Boris Maciejovsky

Max Planck Society for the Advancement of the Sciences - Max Planck Institute for Economics

Abstract

This paper investigates (i) the robustness of hindsight bias in experimental asset markets, (ii) the time invariance of the different experimental risk elicitation methods of certainty equivalents and binary lottery choices, and (iii) their correspondence. The results of our within-subjects approach with 133 traders do not support the conjecture that hindsight bias is a general phenomenon. Furthermore, our findings challenge the presumption of time-stable risk preferences and of procedural invariance with respect to different experimental risk elicitation methods.

Keywords: Hindsight bias, Risk attitude, Financial markets, Experimental economics, Behavioral finance

JEL Classification: C90, G10, D81

Suggested Citation

el Sehity, Tarek Josef and el Sehity, Tarek Josef and Haumer, Hans and Helmenstein, Christian and Kirchler, Erich and Maciejovsky, Boris, Hindsight Bias and Individual Risk Attitude within the Context of Experimental Asset Markets. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=311826 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.311826

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