Review of Behavioral Economics > Vol 4 > Issue 2

Taking Risk with Other People’s Money: Does Information about the Others Matter?

Miguel Luzuriaga, University of Applied Sciences, Neu-Ulm, Germany, miguel.luzuriaga@hs-neu-ulm.de
 
Suggested Citation
Miguel Luzuriaga (2017), "Taking Risk with Other People’s Money: Does Information about the Others Matter?", Review of Behavioral Economics: Vol. 4: No. 2, pp 107-133. http://dx.doi.org/10.1561/105.00000061

Publication Date: 13 Sep 2017
© 2017 M. Luzuriaga
 
Subjects
Financial markets,  Behavioral decision making,  Principal-agent
 
Keywords
JEL Codes: C91D81J16
GenderRiskExperiments
 

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In this article:
1. Introduction 
2. Experimental Design and Procedure 
3. Experimental Results 
4. Discussion 
5. Conclusion 
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Abstract

This paper experimentally investigates how people take risk with other people’s money, and specifically, whether risk-taking is influenced by information about others. Before choosing the degree of risk another person must bear, subjects get information about the other person’s gender and self-reported level of extroversion. There is no evidence that information about gender has an effect, and matters more for choosing on behalf of one’s-self than for choosing on behalf of others. Extroversion, however, has a significant effect. Here it matters more for choosing on behalf of others than on behalf of one’s-self. I also find that the own risk choices have a strong effect on choosing on behalf of others.

DOI:10.1561/105.00000061