We propose a model of decision making that captures reluctance to bet when the decision maker (DM) perceives that she lacks adequate information or expertise about the underlying contingencies. On the other hand, the same DM can prefer to bet in situations where she feels specially knowledgeable...

A main goal of this paper is to try to clarify the notions of impatience and myopia, often considered as synonymous in the literature. The occurrence of asset price bubbles (see Araujo et al., 2011) when only myopia is required, explains why we focused on a stronger notion that we define as...