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This paper examines the relationship between Knightian uncertainty and Bayesian approaches to entrepreneurship. Using Bewley's formal model of uncertainty and incomplete preferences, it demonstrates that key predictions from Bayesian entrepreneurship remain robust when accounting for Knightian...
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We introduce a simple, easy to implement instrument for jointly eliciting risk and ambiguity attitudes. Using this … significantly overstated when risk neutrality is assumed. This highlights the interplay between risk and ambiguity attitudes as well …
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We test the relation between ambiguity aversion and five household portfolio choice puzzles: non- participation, low allocations to equity, home-bias, own-company stock ownership, and portfolio under- diversification. In a representative U.S. household survey, we measure ambiguity aversion using...
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This paper demonstrates gender differences in risk aversion and ambiguity aversion. It also contributes to a growing … of cognition. Women are more risk averse than men. Over an initial range, women require no further compensation for the … as men. Psychological variables account for some of the interpersonal variation in risk aversion. They explain none of …
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, survival ambiguity is welfare improving because it allows competitive insurance companies to pool risk across survival types …
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static tradeoff theory model in which agents are both risk averse and ambiguity averse. The model confirms the usual idea … that increased risk--the uncertainty over known possible outcomes--leads firms to use less leverage. Conversely, greater …
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We develop a dynamic model of firm investment under uncertainty that captures firms' risk attitude using quantile …-quantile of its value next period. In our framework, τ ∈ (0, 1) parametrizes the firm's attitude toward downside risk. The model … value of future marginal profits -- investment depends directly on the firm's risk attitude. We further integrate our model …
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This paper studies how interest groups allocate campaign contributions when congressmen are connected by social ties. We establish conditions for the existence of a unique Nash equilibrium in pure strategies for the contribution game and characterize the associated allocation of the interest...
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Social distancing via shelter-in-place strategies, and wearing masks, have emerged as the most effective non-pharmaceutical ways of combatting COVID-19. In the United States, choices about these policies are made by individual states. We develop a game-theoretic model and then test it...
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The minimax argument represents game theory in its most elegant form: simple but with stark predictions. Although some of these predictions have been met with reasonable success in the field, experimental data have generally not provided results close to the theoretical predictions. In a...
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