title: Myopic Loss Aversion under Ambiguity and Gender Effects.
abstract: Experimental evidence suggests that the frequency with which individuals get feedback information on their investments has an effect on their risk-taking behavior. In particular, when they are given information sufficiently often, they take less risks compared with a situation in which they are informed less frequently. We find that this result still holds when subjects do not know the probabilities of the lotteries they are betting upon. We also detect significant gender effects, in that the frequency with which information is disclosed mostly affects male betting behavior, and that males become more risk-seeking after experiencing a loss.
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Fundamentos del Análisis Económico, Universidad de Alicante, 03071 Alicante, Spain.
authors.forename: Iñigo
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Iturbe-Ormaetxe
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Fundamentos del Análisis Económico, Universidad de Alicante, 03071 Alicante, Spain.|Department of Economics, University of Chicago, 1126 East 59th Street, Chicago, IL 60637, United States of America.|Dipartimento di Economia e Finanza, LUISS Guido Carli, viale Romania 32, 00197, Roma, Italy.
authors.forename: Giovanni
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Ponti
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Fundamentos del Análisis Económico, Universidad de Alicante, 03071 Alicante, Spain.
authors.forename: Josefa
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Tomás
mesh_terms: D002755:Choice Behavior; D003657:Decision Making; D005260:Female; D005715:Gambling; D006801:Humans; D007449:Investments; D008297:Male; D011336:Probability; D012309:Risk-Taking; D012737:Sex Factors; D013334:Students; D035501:Uncertainty