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Risk Taking and Skewness Seeking Behavior in a Demographically Diverse Population

Douadia Bougherara, Lana Friesen et Céline Nauges

Mots-clés

We study the interaction between risk taking and skewness seeking behavior among the French population using an experiment that elicits certainty equivalent over lotteries that vary the second and third moments orthogonally. We find that the most common behavior is risk avoidance and skewness seeking. On average, we find no interaction between the two, and a weakly significant interaction only in some segments of the population. That is, in most cases, skewness seeking is not affected by the variance of the lotteries involved, nor is risk taking affected by the skewness of the lotteries. We also find a significant positive correlation between risk avoiding and skewness seeking behavior. Older and female participants make more risk avoiding and more skewness seeking choices, while less educated people and those not in executive occupations are more skewness seeking.;

Codes JEL

  • C93: Field Experiments
  • D81: Criteria for Decision-Making under Risk and Uncertainty

Remplacé par

Douadia Bougherara, Lana Friesen et Céline Nauges, « Risk-Taking and Skewness-Seeking Behavior in a Demographically Diverse Population », Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, vol. 201, septembre 2022, p. 83–104.

Référence

Douadia Bougherara, Lana Friesen et Céline Nauges, « Risk Taking and Skewness Seeking Behavior in a Demographically Diverse Population », TSE Working Paper, n° 21-1267, novembre 2021, révision juillet 2022.

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TSE Working Paper, n° 21-1267, novembre 2021, révision juillet 2022