The 'Bomb' Risk Elicitation Task (BRET)

Crosetto, Paolo and Filippin, Antonio, The 'Bomb' Risk Elicitation Task (July 3, 2012). Jena Economic Research Paper No. 2012 - 035. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2100356


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Description:

Purpose

The behavioural task is designed to elicit risk preferences in an incentive compatible way. The measure requires minimal numeracy skills, avoids truncation of the data, allows to precisely estimate both risk aversion and risk seeking, and is not affected by the degree of loss aversion or by violations of the Reduction Axiom.
Questions

The BRET asks subjects to decide at which point to stop collecting a series of 100 boxes, one of which contains a time bomb. Earnings increase linearly with the number of boxes collected but are equal to zero if one of them contains the bomb. The task is designed to avoid potential truncation of the data, so that subjects are free to choose any number between 0 and 100.
Sub-scales

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Domain

Behavioral Measures of Risk
Psychometrics


Sample items

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References:

Scale:
Crosetto, Paolo and Filippin, Antonio, The 'Bomb' Risk Elicitation Task (July 3, 2012). Jena Economic Research Paper No. 2012 - 035. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2100356
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