Narges Hajimoladarvish

• PhD in Economics (Behavioral and Experimental Economics)
• Professor (Assistant) at Alzahra University

We consider income-source-dependent tax evasion and show that this is a generalisation of the well-known endowment effect. We show that loss aversion, moral costs, mental accounting and risk preferences play a role in explaining key features of source-dependent tax evasion. We provide evidence of the first direct link between subject-specific loss...

To effectively manage health crises such as disease pandemics, health authorities require reliable information regarding people's preferences. This helps to ensure timely and targeted interventions and avoids increasing societal costs through developing evidence-based policies. This study investigates the Iranian people's preference for financing c...

This article investigates the role of Conceptual Metaphors of 3 behavioral economics biases, including Irrational Evaluation, Labeling, and Replacing market values with social values on Willingness to Pay (WTP) and Willingness to Accept (WTA) of Participants. To extract experimental, conceptual metaphors, the results of field studies were checked o...

This study aimed to estimate Iranian willingness to pay (WTP) for a hypothetical COVID-19 vaccine and its determinants. A cross-sectional online survey was conducted from May 2 nd to 20 th , 2020 among the general population of Iran to estimate WTP for hypothetical COVID-19 vaccines. Four scenarios with different levels of efficacy and duration of...

This paper reports the results of an experiment designed to test the strategic behavior of a sample of students from Shahid Beheshti University. Their behavior is tested against the Nash equilibrium prediction of p-beauty contest. For this purpose, the game is repeated with six different parameters. To insure incentive compatibility, we used salien...

This paper provides experimental evidence for a rather important question: How do people reduce compound lotteries? As an alternative to the reduction of compound lotteries axiom of expected utility, I also test the compound independence axiom that can be employed by several decision theories. While the non-parametric test does not reject the compo...

This paper was aimed to investigate the mixed empirical results on the effect of health insurance in reducing the risk of catastrophic health expenditure (CHE). We investigated a wide range of factors affecting the risk of CHE among patients admitted to hospitals in Tehran. We categorized hospitals into five groups from private hospitals to charity...

his paper evaluates the attitudes of Iranians toward crossing red traffic lights and their sensitivity to fines. An economic theory of crime under expected utility predicts that because of the possibility of severe punishments, risk-adverse individuals would not cross red lights. This is implied by the Becker proposition. However, among 262 individ...

This experimental study uses a non-parametric method to investigate probability weighting functions for very low probabilities in the loss domain. Probability weights in three loss situations containing small, large and heterogeneous losses composed of both small and large losses are elicited. While most of the probabilities under consideration are...

This short note was prepared for Behavioural Finance course if Prof Sanjit Dhami. It summarizes the most parametric and non-parametric methods used to elicit utility and probability weighting functions.