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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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can generate systematic biases in revealed preference measures such as spurious risk aversion. These effects are very …
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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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Financial Crisis was associated with an increase in both risk aversion and ambiguity aversion, while the Dot-com Crisis only … affected risk aversion. …
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Although risk aversion has been used in economic models for over 275 years, the past few decades have shown how higher … order risk attitudes are also quite important. A behavioral approach to defining such risk attitudes was developed by … lattices can be extended in order to develop a better understanding of higher order risk attitudes. …
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the intuition that risk exposure is detrimental, we show that residual claimants are able to extract a risk premium, which … is increasing in risk exposure. In some cases the premium is so high that it is advantageous to bargain over a risky pie … rather than a risk-less pie. Contrary to theory, the comparatively less risk adverse residual claimants benefit the most …
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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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People often fail to insure against catastrophes, even when insurance is subsidized. Even when insuring homes, many homeowners still underinsure the full value of their assets. Some researchers have suggested using long-term insurance contracts to reduce these insurance gaps. We examine...
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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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