Loss Aversion in Financial Markets

Experimental evidence suggests that people are more sensitive to losses than gains by a factor of about two. Researchers have drawn implications from loss aversion to understand various aspects of individual decisions and asset prices in financial markets. At the current stage, some ancillary assump...

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Main Author: Liyan Yang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Society for the Promotion of Mechanism and Institution Design 2019-11-01
Series:Journal of Mechanism and Institution Design
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Online Access: http://www.mechanism-design.org/arch/v004-1/p_05.pdf