Showing papers in "Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Finance in 2017"

TL;DR: This article presents www.prolific.ac and lays out its suitability for recruiting subjects for social and economic science experiments, and traces the platform’s historical development, present its features, and contrast them with requirements for different types of social andEconomic experiments.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigate what psychological characteristics influence individuals' positive financial behavior and financi c..., and find that psychological characteristics can influence individual's positive financial behaviour and financial decisions.

TL;DR: A review of the relationship between happiness and economic behavior can be found in this article, where the authors describe how experimental and non-experimental methods have been used, across the social sciences, to investigate how happiness drives, and is driven by, particular behavioural tendencies.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explored people's environmental attitudes and motives for putting economic values to marine biodiversity protection and found significant relationships between environmental attitudes, non-use motivations, WTP and ethical motives for species protection.

TL;DR: In this paper, a survey of 2,485 individuals in Brazil and the main results showed most individuals have a low level of financial literacy across both genders and a significant relationship between financial literacy and gender is observed; the proportion of men is higher among those with a high level of finance literacy.

TL;DR: This paper conducted a laboratory experiment to examine how third-party ratings impact charity choice and donative behavior, particularly in regards to preferences for local charities, and found evidence that subjects' choice of charity is impacted by thirdparty evaluations.

TL;DR: This article found that large prior donors both are more likely to give and also give more, whereas small prior donors are less likely to donate, and this pattern is consistent with two different types of donors: warm glow donors who respond negatively to analytical effectiveness information, and altruism donors that respond positively to such information.

TL;DR: In this article, the impact of emotions on monetary donations to pro-environmental causes was studied, and it was shown that incidental emotions do not prompt donations themselves, but that certain emotional states (awe) can increase the amount donated.

TL;DR: In this paper, a large-scale survey data from the 2006-2012 waves of the US Health and Retirement Study (HRS) was used to show that individual portfolio decisions are influenced by a variety of stable traits and facets traditionally investigated in the field of personality psychology.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the presence of herd behavior in Vietnam stock market using a sample of 299 companies listed on the Ho Chi Minh City Stock Exchange covering the time period 2005-2015.

TL;DR: It is argued that virtual reality experiments are framed field experiments, which allow testing the effect of contextual cues on economic decision-making under the strict control of the experimenter and attenuates the context-free illusion that represents an important limitation of the standard laboratory approach in economics.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors developed a simple model to show how deadlines could affect the propensity to make a charitable donation and conducted two field experiments to show empirically the effect of deadlines on charitable giving.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that individual religiosity accounts for differences in individual's risk preferences and private financial behaviour and furthermore support the view that religious participation helps to explain different individual investment behaviour.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors provide an overview of the main advances on the use of experimental techniques for the study of financial markets, focusing on several topics that have been addressed in the field of experimental asset markets.

TL;DR: In this paper, the influence of choice architecture on the contributions of a total of 328 participants to real charities was investigated, and it was found that framing a one-time donation opportunity as an opt-out as opposed to opt-in decision significantly increased donations to an environmental non-profit.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors restate the Dunning-kruger effect in terms of skill and overconfidence and show that the unskilled are more overconfident than the skilled.

TL;DR: This paper conducted a field experiment at a public university in which prospective donors were presented with either an opportunity to donate to the unrestricted Annual Fund, or an opportunity of donating to the Annual Fund and directing some or all of their donation towards the academic college from which they graduated.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine consumer behavior under pay-what-you-want (PWYW) pricing by conducting a series of field experiments that implemented different pricing schemes at a coffee shop.

TL;DR: Ready-to-use software applications for widely used choice list methodologies for use with oTree, including (i) multiple price lists, (ii) certainty equivalent tests, (iii) staircase methods, and (iv) single choice lists are presented.

TL;DR: The authors compared the effectiveness of rebate and matching subsidies in the field and, to their knowledge, is the first to control for potential bias introduced by the failure to account for donors' awareness of the offered subsidies.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors address the question whether momentum strategy yields profit using a sample of firms listed on the Ho Chi Minh City stock exchange covering the period from June 2007 to October 2015, and find that momentum effects exist in Vietnamese stock market.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the demand for voluntary climate change mitigation when the purely individual perspective of existing revealed preference studies is relaxed, and they found that information about other subjects' behavior has no effect on their demand for climate mitigation.

TL;DR: This paper found that women are more compliant than men when paying taxes but may free ride more when contributing to public goods, and the results indicated the gender gap in compliance is due to differences in both the extensive and intensive margins.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors empirically tested the effectiveness of two institutional nudges on the excessive choice effect in a field experiment at a bar and found that the effect was alive and well using the control menu, but the effect reversed itself when the menu included Beer Advocate scores.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors study the impact of sending more requests on total donations and show that there is a negative competitive effect on requests from other charities, but this effect dies out rapidly.

TL;DR: This article analyzed trading and portfolio data from a large retail bank and found that socially responsible investors display a greater disposition effect than conventional investors, whereas they do not find evidence for a relationship between the percentage invested in socially responsible stocks and the disposition effect.

TL;DR: In this article, the effectiveness of mass media campaigns in the TV and national newspapers used by the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) of Pakistan to increase awareness, tax filing, and, ultimately, tax morale was examined.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used information revelation in an experimental dictator game, in which dictators inform dictators about the transfers received by each of their partners in the past, and found that the effect of guilt aversion on giving depends on communication.

TL;DR: The authors used data from an original Internet survey in Japan to compare the relative-income results from happiness regressions to those from hypothetical-choice experiments, and found that the comparison of experienced utility via direct comparison with decision utility remains rare in this literature.

TL;DR: A panel discussion on behavioral finance took place on November 19, 2016 during the annual meeting of the Southern Finance Association (SFA) held at Sandestin, Florida as mentioned in this paper.