Risk taking by agents: The role of ex-ante and ex-post accountability [Dataset]

DOI

We study the role of accountability in situations where an agent makes risky decisions for a principal. We observe that in the absence of accountability, agents choose less risk averse investments for the principal than investors who invest for their own account. Accountability mitigates the observed decrease in risk aversion. Differences are observed between situations where agents are accountable for their decision ("ex-ante") and where they are accountable for the outcome ("ex-post").

Identifier
DOI https://doi.org/10.11588/DATA/10066
Related Identifier IsCitedBy https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2014.04.004
Metadata Access https://heidata.uni-heidelberg.de/oai?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=doi:10.11588/DATA/10066
Provenance
Creator Pollmann, Monique; Potters, Jan; Trautmann, Stefan T.
Publisher heiDATA
Contributor Stefan Trautmann; Alfred-Weber-Institute for Economics; University of Heidelberg; Bergheimer Str. 58; 69115 Heidelberg, Germany; Phone: +49 6221 54 2952; Fax: +49 6221 54 3592; Pollmann, Monique; Potters, Jan; Trautmann, Stefan T.; heiDATA: Heidelberg Research Data Repository
Publication Year 2016
Rights info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
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Contact Stefan Trautmann; Alfred-Weber-Institute for Economics; University of Heidelberg; Bergheimer Str. 58; 69115 Heidelberg, Germany; Phone: +49 6221 54 2952; Fax: +49 6221 54 3592 (Alfred-Weber-Institute of Economics)
Representation
Resource Type behavioral experiment; laboratory; Dataset
Format application/octet-stream; text/tab-separated-values; text/x-stata-syntax; charset=US-ASCII; text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
Size 14448; 129553; 57834; 1926; 15440; 575
Version 1.1
Discipline Agriculture, Forestry, Horticulture, Aquaculture; Agriculture, Forestry, Horticulture, Aquaculture and Veterinary Medicine; Life Sciences; Social Sciences; Social and Behavioural Sciences; Soil Sciences
Spatial Coverage Tilburg (Netherlands)