Attitudes toward private and collective risk in individual and strategic choice situations

By G. Brennan, Luis González, W. Gueth, Maria Vittoria Levati. 2008

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Contractual and Organizational Structure with Reciprocal Agents (2008, result): “We believe that this simplifying assumption is justified, as recent experimental papers have shown that subjects are on average risk neutral in their choices over lotteries that others will face (see Güth, Levati and Ploner 2008 and Brennan et al. 2008).”
Excusing Selfishness in Charitable Giving (2015, background): “First, participants who appear more selfish in riskless decisions are more 8For instance, related literature includes (Andersson et al., 2013, 2014; Bolton and Ockenfels, 2010; Brennan et al., 2008; Chakravarty et al., 2011; Eriksen et al., 2014; Güth et al., 2008).”
Social comparison and risky choices (2009, unknown): “For example, although people are willing to pay to raise the (expected) earnings of others they will not pay to reduce others’ risk (Brennan et al. 2008).”
‘Give me a chance!’ An experiment in social decision under risk (2010, background): “The studies by Brennan et al. (2008) and Guth et al. (2008) seek to establish whether subjects care about the amount of risk assumed by another individual.”