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data with a broad class of models of choice under risk and under uncertainty. Our method allows for risk loving and elation … model of choice. We evaluate the performance of different models (including expected utility, disappointment aversion, rank … dependent utility, mean-variance utility, and stochastically monotone utility) in the data collected by Choi et al. (2007), in …
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(Choquet expected utility and maxmin expected utility) in competitive market settings. We start with the portfolio inertia …
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The Allais critique of expected utility theory (EUT) has led to the development of theories of choice under risk that …
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risk aversion is sufficient. These results highlight the importance of the specification of the utility function and its … in the spirit of the literature on precautionary savings. We find that boundedness of the utility function, in particular … a bounded utility function, we show that in a standard two-period setting, prudence is no longer sufficient to ensure a …
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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 address the problem of choosing a portfolio of policies under "deep uncertainty." We introduce the idea of belief dominance as a way to derive a set of non-dominated portfolios and robust individual alternatives. Our approach departs from the tradition of providing a single recommended...
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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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