Economic Preferences and Personality Traits Among Finance Professionals and the General Population
通过实地实验比较金融专业人士与普通工人在风险偏好、信任度、精神病态和竞争性等方面的差异，并探讨行业选择、自我选择和行业规范的影响。
Abstract Based on artefactual field experiments, we investigate whether finance professionals differ from a sample of the working population in terms of industry-relevant preferences and personality traits. When adjusting for socioeconomic characteristics, we find only few and less marked differences: finance professionals are less risk averse, less trustworthy, show higher levels of psychopathy and are more competitive than participants from the general population. In an additional survey, experts with hiring experience consider industry selection, self-selection and imprinting by industry norms as explanatory for the observed subject pool differences.