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We investigate what it means for one act to be more ambiguous than another. The question is evidently analogous to asking what makes one prospect riskier than another, but beliefs are neither objective nor representable by a unique probability. Our starting point is an abstract class of...
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We report an experiment where each subject's ambiguity sensitivity is measured by an ambiguity premium, a concept … analogous to and comparable with a risk premium. In our design, some tasks feature known objective risks and others uncertainty … ambiguity premia; and that, on average, ambiguity sensitivity is about as strong as risk sensitivity. …
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We report an experiment where each subject's ambiguity sensitivity is measured by an ambiguity premium, a concept … analogous to and comparable with a risk premium. In our design, some tasks feature known objective risks and others uncertainty … ambiguity premia; and that, on average, ambiguity sensitivity is about as strong as risk sensitivity. …
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to an ambiguity averse preference for a randomized act. Building on this insight, we implement an experiment whose design … provides a qualitative test that discriminates between the two classes of models. Among subjects identified as ambiguity …
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labora-tory experiments designed to test independence, our experiment systematically tests the entire set of axioms …The Allais critique of expected utility theory (EUT) has led to the development of theories of choice under risk that …
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Most decisions concerning (self-)insurance and self-protection have to be taken in situations in which a) the effort exerted precedes the moment uncertainty realises, and b) the probabilities of future states of the world are not perfectly known. By integrating these two characteristics in a...
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We experimentally explore decision-making under uncertainty using a framework that decomposes uncertainty into three distinct layers: (1) physical uncertainty, entailing inherent randomness within a given probability model, (2) model uncertainty, entailing subjective uncertainty about the...
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We review some of the (theoretical) economic implications of David Schmeidler's models of decision under uncertainty (Choquet expected utility and maxmin expected utility) in competitive market settings. We start with the portfolio inertia result of Dow and Werlang (1992), show how it does or...
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dividends next period as ambiguous. We calibrate the agent's ambiguity aversion to match only the first moment of the risk …
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