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Several factors affect attitudes toward ambiguity. What happens, however, when people are asked to exchange an …
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I experimentally examine whether feedback about others' choices provides an anchor for decision-making under ambiguity … relative ambiguity attitude (compared to the peer's) significantly matters for shifts in individual attitudes, and that … dynamics considerably differ between gain and loss domains. For gains, learning to be comparably ambiguity averse increases the …
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The existence of ambiguity presents a challenge to decision-makers as it eliminates the ability to apply standard …, ambiguity arises in most strategically important decisions in some form because of the genuine limits on the decision … problems as strategic decision-making under ambiguity where choices over resource investments must be made in competitive …
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Before choosing her action to match the state of the world, an agent observes a stream of messages generated by some unknown binary signal. The agent can either learn the underlying signal for free and update her belief accordingly or ignore the observed message and keep her prior belief. After...
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We review recent advances in the field of decision making under uncertainty or ambiguity. …
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compositions are identical. We identify choices that reveal an aversion to ambiguity about the relation between urns, thus … identifying a source of uncertainty different from the usual Knightian distinction between risk and ambiguity. Behavior is studied …
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contribution, the paper extends the smooth ambiguity model by providing a threefold disentanglement between, risk aversion …, ambiguity aversion, and the propensity to smooth consumption over time. …
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uncertainty by a measure of confidence. Special cases of the model comprise discounting under smooth ambiguity aversion as well as …
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We examine a variety of preference-based definitions of ambiguous events in the context of the smooth ambiguity model … ambiguity model, we show that Ghirardato and Marinacci (2002) would identify the same set of ambiguous and unambiguous events as … more interesting source is that these two definitions can confound non-constant ambiguity attitude and the ambiguity of an …
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This paper explores the problem of a social planner willing to improve the welfare of individuals who are unable to compare all available alternatives. The optimal decision trades off the individuals' desire for flexibility versus their aversion towards ambiguous choice situations. We introduce...
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