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regularities by developing a new firmbased trade model wherein managers are risk averse. Higher volatility induces the reallocation …
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can generate systematic biases in revealed preference measures such as spurious risk aversion. These effects are very …
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degree of pessimism of the representative agent is the mean of the individual ones weighted by their index of absolute risk …
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We conduct an incentivized experiment on a nationally representative US sample (N=708) to test whether people prefer to avoid ambiguity even when it means choosing dominated options. In contrast to the literature, we find that 55% of subjects prefer a risky act to an ambiguous act that always...
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This paper studies the relevance of cognitive uncertainty - subjective uncertainty over one’s utility-maximizing action - for understanding and predicting intertemporal choice. The main idea is that when people are cognitively noisy, such as when a decision is complex, they implicitly treat...
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explain a set of behavioral anomalies identified across four distinct domains of decision-making: choice under risk, choice … risk and ambiguity, belief updating, and survey expectations. Our framework makes predictions that we test using exogenous …
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attitudes towards ambiguity and compound risk which suggests that compound risk aversion may provide a psychological foundation … for ambiguity aversion. However, compound risk aversion and ambiguity aversion may also be independent psychological …’s ability to reduce compound to simple risks, and analyzing how this affects their compound risk and ambiguity attitudes in …
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We investigate whether violations of canonical axioms of choice under risk are mistakes or a manifestation of true …
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Experimental studies of the WTP-WTA gap avoid social trading by implementing an incentive compatible mechanism for each individual trader. We compare a traditional random price mechanism and a novel elicitation mechanism preserving social trading, without sacrificing mutual incentive...
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risk preferences. Here, we develop an analogous tool for choice under uncertainty - the ambiguity triangle - and show that … characterize this heterogeneity with finite-mixture estimates of a one-parameter extension of Expected Utility Theory wherein 48 …
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