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Are Preferences Stable?
出版SSRN, 2008
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=ANTizwEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋We use field experiments to examine the temporal stability of risk preferences. Stability can mean that a given subject exhibits the same risk attitudes over time, or that their risk attitudes are a stable function of states of nature that change over time. It is quite possible for risk preferences to be stable in either, both or neither of these senses. We report the results of a large-scale panel experiment undertaken in the field designed to examine this issue. Over a 17 month period we elicited risk preferences from subjects chosen to be representative of the adult Danish population. During this period we re-visited many of these subjects and repeated a risk aversion elicitation task. In each visit we also elicited information on their individual characteristics, as well as their expectations about the state of their own economic situation and macroeconomic variables. We control for changes in the subject's perceived states of nature, as well as the possible effects of endogenous sample selection into the re-test. We find some variation in risk attitudes over time, but we do not detect a general tendency for risk attitudes to increase or decrease over a 17-month span. The results also suggest that risk preferences are state contingent with respect to personal finances.