Dictating the Risk: Experimental Evidence on Giving in Risky Environments: Comment

• 成果类型: Editorial Material
• 署名作者: Krawczyk, Michal; Le Lec, Fabrice
• 署名单位: University of Warsaw; heSam Universite; Universite Pantheon-Sorbonne
• 刊物名称: AMERICAN ECONOMIC REVIEW
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0002-8282
• DOI: 10.1257/aer.20130779
• 发表日期: 2016
• 页码: 836-839
• 关键词: preferences

摘要

Based on experimental dictator games with probabilistic prospects, Brock, Lange, and Ozbay (2013) conclude that neither ex post nor ex ante comparisons can fully account for observed behavior. We argue that their conclusion that ex ante comparisons cannot explain the data is at best weakly supported by their results, and do so on three grounds: (i) the absence of significant differences between the most relevant treatments, (ii) the implicit assumption of subjects' risk neutrality, and (iii) the asymmetry of treatments regarding the disclosure of dictators' choice.