Theses and Dissertations
Issuing Body
Mississippi State University
Advisor
Coble, Keith
Committee Member
Harri, Ardian
Committee Member
Barnett, Barry
Committee Member
Coatney, Kalyn
Date of Degree
8-15-2014
Document Type
Graduate Thesis - Open Access
Major
Agricultural Economics
Degree Name
Master of Science (M.S.)
College
College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
Department
Department of Agricultural Economics
Abstract
This study is set out to explore how cognitive biases, gambler’s fallacy and hot hand effect, exert an effect on individual crop insurance purchase decision. A laboratory experiment comprised of two separate games was used to establish an insurance purchase environment to induce individual’s behavior. The gambler’s fallacy and hot hand effect failed to be found in the experiment. But the subjects’ perceived probability of loss plays a significant role in determine their purchase decisions—the higher probability they predicted, the more likely to buy insurance they were. It is also fascinating to find that the longer the exposure to random risks the subjects had, the more willing to engage in insurance protection they were.
URI
https://hdl.handle.net/11668/21023
Recommended Citation
Qian, Peng, "Experimental Analysis of Crop Insurance - Cognitive Bias in Decision Making" (2014). Theses and Dissertations. 2133.
https://scholarsjunction.msstate.edu/td/2133