The endowment effect in the future: How time shapes buying and selling prices
The endowment effect in the future: How time shapes buying and selling prices
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未来的禀赋效应:时间如何影响买卖价格
DOI:
10.1017/s1930297500009293
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发表时间:
2022
影响因子:
2.5
通讯作者:
Navarro-Martinez Daniel
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作者:
Yamamoto Shohei;Navarro-Martinez Daniel
Previous research has focused on studying the endowment effect for transactions that take place in the present. Many real-world transactions, however, are delayed into the future (i.e., people agree to buy or sell, but the actual transaction does not materialize until a later time). Here we investigate how transaction timing affects the endowment effect. In five studies, we show that the endowment effect systematically increases as transactions are delayed into the future. Specifically, buying prices significantly decrease as the transaction is delayed, while selling prices remain constant, resulting in an amplified endowment effect (Experiment 1). This pattern is not produced by a discounting of the money involved in the transaction (Experiment 2), and it holds across different types of items (Experiment 3). We also show that the phenomenon cannot be explained by sellers anticipating becoming increasingly attached to the items over time (Experiment 4). Finally, we demonstrate that this increased endowment effect in the future holds in the field, in the context of a real market and with real transactions (Experiment 5).