• Can the risky investment game predict real world investments? 

      Holden, Stein T.; Tilahun, Mesfin (CLTS Working paper;05/21, Working paper, 2022)
      The incentivized risky investment game has become a popular tool in lab-in-the-field experiments for its simplicity and ease of comprehension compared to some of the more complex Multiple Choice List approaches that have ...
    • How Large is the Endowment Effect in the Risky Investment Game? 

      Holden, Stein T.; Tilahun, Mesfin (CLTS Working paper;04/21, Working paper, 2021)
      The risky investment game of Gneezy and Potters (1997) has been a popular tool used to estimate risk tolerance and myopic loss aversion. Holden and Tilahun (2021) tested and found that the simple one-shot version of this ...
    • The Predictive Power of Luck: Luck and Risk-Taking in a Repeated Risky Investment Game 

      Holden, Stein T.; Tione, Sarah; Katengeza, Samson; Tilahun, Mesfin (CLTS Working paper;09/22, Working paper, 2022-10)
      Can luck predict risk-taking behavior in games of chance? Economists have not widely studied this issue although overconfidence, optimism-, and pessimism bias have received substantial attention in recent years. In this ...