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We introduce a simple, easy to implement instrument for jointly eliciting risk and ambiguity attitudes. Using this … instrument, we structurally estimate a two-parameter model of preferences. Our findings indicate that ambiguity aversion is … significantly overstated when risk neutrality is assumed. This highlights the interplay between risk and ambiguity attitudes as well …
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An extensive literature has studied ambiguity aversion in economic decision making, and how ambiguity aversion can … general dislike of ambiguity. In this paper, we provide a systematic experimental assessment of ambiguity attitudes in … more than 500 participants and find that ambiguity aversion is the exception, not the rule. We replicate the usual finding …
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This paper proposes a decision-theoretic framework for experiment design. We model experimenters as ambiguity …
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We study the pattern of correlations across a large number of behavioral regularities, with the goal of creating an empirical basis for more comprehensive theories of decision-making. We elicit 21 behaviors using an incentivized survey on a representative sample (n = 1;000) of the U.S....
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We show that ambiguity aversion increases the value of a statistical life as soon as the marginal utility of wealth is … higher if alive than dead. The intuition is that ambiguity aversion has a similar effect as an increase in the perceived … baseline mortality risk, and thus operates as the "dead anyway" effect. We suggest, however, that ambiguity aversion should …
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We study risk attitudes, ambiguity attitudes, and time preferences of 661 children and adolescents, aged ten to … mass index, are less likely to save money and show worse conduct at school. Experimental measures for risk and ambiguity …
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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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This paper studies how updating affects ambiguity-attitude. In particular we focus on the generalized Bayesian update … of the Jaffray-Phillipe sub-class of Choquet Expected Utility preferences. We find conditions for ambiguity-attitude to … be the same before and after updating. A necessary and sufficient condition for ambiguity-attitude to be unchanged when …
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Women are often perceived as more compliant than men; however, the literature provides inconclusive evidence. Using a novel experimental design comprising two complementary experiments, we test this claim in online samples representative of the German adult population. The first experiment...
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A formula is derived for the social cost of carbon (SCC) that takes account of intragenerational income inequality and its evolution with economic growth. The social discount rate (SDR) should be adjusted to account for intragenerational and intergenerational inequality aversion and for risk...
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