TY  - RPRT
CY  - Toulouse
ID  - publications15789
UR  - http://tse-fr.eu/pub/27789
A1  - Chiappori, Pierre-André
A1  - Gandhi, Amit
A1  - Salanié, Bernard
A1  - Salanié, François
Y1  - 2012/10//
N2  - As a textbook model of contingent markets, horse races are an attractive environment to study the attitudes towards risk of bettors. We innovate on the literature by explicitly considering heterogeneous bettors and allowing for very general risk preferences, including non-expected utility. We build on a standard single-crossing condition on preferences to derive testable implications; and we show how parimutuel data allow us to uniquely identify the distribution of preferences among the population of bettors. We then estimate the model on data from US races. Within the expected utility class, the most usual specifications (CARA and CRRA) fit the data very badly. Our results show evidence for both heterogeneity and nonlinear probability weighting.
PB  - TSE Working Paper
T3  - TSE Working Paper
M1  - working_paper
TI  - From Aggregate Betting Data to Individual Risk Preferences
AV  - public
EP  - 53
ER  -