Paolo Crosetto, primé par la revue "Experimental Economics"

Félicitations à Paolo Crosetto, laboratoire GAEL, et  Antonio Filippin, DEMM Université de Milan, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn, qui sont les lauréats du prix du meilleur article publié dans la revue Experimental Economics pour l'année 2016 pour leur article intitulé «A theoretical and experimental appraisal of four risk elicitation methods", paru dans le numéro de septembre 2016.

Abstract:

The paper performs an in-depth comparison of four incentivised risk elicitation tasks. We show by means of a simulation exercise that part of the often observed heterogeneity of estimates across tasks is due to task-specific measurement error induced by the mere mechanics of the tasks. We run a replication experiment in a homogeneous subject pool using a between subjects one-shot design. Results shows that the task estimates vary over and above what can be explained by the simulations. We investigate the possibility the tasks elicit different types of preferences, rather than simply provide a different measure of the same preferences. In particular, the availability of a riskless alternative plays a prominent role helping to explain part of the differences in the estimated preferences.