The Best Films of 2016 (for Behavioral Economists)
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A Bloomberg View column about highlighted a 2014 piece from the 蝌蚪网 Journal: Microeconomics. In The Control Premium: A Preference for Payoff Autonomy, the authors ask experiment participants to bet money on either themselves or a partner answering a quiz question correctly. Participants opt to bet on themselves more than expected, possibly because they would like to feel they are in control of their own fate.