The Effect of Myopia and Loss Aversion on Risk Taking: An Experimental Test
- 1 May 1997
- journal article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in The Quarterly Journal of Economics
- Vol. 112 (2) , 647-661
- https://doi.org/10.1162/003355397555226
Abstract
Myopic loss aversion is the combination of a greater sensitivity to losses than to gains and a tendency to evaluate outcomes frequently. Two implicatKeywords
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