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A longstanding challenge in evaluating the impact of uncertainty on investment is obtaining measures of managers' subjective uncertainty. We address this challenge by using a detailed new survey measure of subjective uncertainty collected by the U.S. Census Bureau for approximately 25,000...
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As evidence is accumulating that subjective expectations influence behavior and that these expectations are sometimes biased, it becomes policy-relevant to know how to influence individuals' expectations. Information in the media is likely to affect how people picture the future. This paper...
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We study belief updating about relative performance in an ego-relevant task. Manipulating the perceived ego-relevance of the task, we show that subjects update their beliefs optimistically because they derive direct utility flows from holding positive beliefs. This finding provides a behavioral...
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According to social-psychological research, feelings of uncertainty in decision-making evoke two opposite responses: (i) reduction of uncertainty by information search, leading to less stereotyping of people, and hence less discrimination; (ii) social identification with an ingroup, inducing...
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-year VIX and our survey-based measure of firm-level uncertainty at a one-year forecast horizon doubled at the onset of the … national security as of March 2022. Fourth, firm-level risk perceptions skewed heavily to the downside in spring 2020 but …
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Bayesian Updating is the dominant theory of learning in economics. The theory is silent about how individuals react to …
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mortality if and only if mortality risk is convex in forecast errors. We test for such convexity using data on the universe of …
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Forecasting errors pose a serious problem of identification, often neglected in empirical applications. Any attempt of estimating choice models under uncertainty may lead to severely biased results in the presence of forecasting errors even when individual expectations on future events are...
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considers the evidence on return predictability, risk aversion and market efficiency. The paper then focuses on the theoretical …
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risk preferences. Here, we develop an analogous tool for choice under uncertainty – the ambiguity triangle – and show that … indifference curves in this triangle capture preferences for unknown probabilities. In particular, the ambiguity triangle allows us …-parametric test for constant ambiguity attitudes. We find that more than 95% of subjects adhere to GARP and that about 60% satisfy our …
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