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We investigate whether violations of canonical axioms of choice under risk are mistakes or a manifestation of true … 70% of axiom violations are intentional whereas only 30% are mistakes. On the subject level we can clearly categorize … almost half of our subjects. Among those, roughly 24% are rational expected utility maximizers, 24% make occasional mistakes …
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We investigate whether violations of canonical axioms of choice under risk are mistakes or a manifestation of true … 70% of axiom viola-tions are intentional whereas only 30% are mistakes. On the subject level we can clearly categorize … almost half of our subjects. Among those, roughly 24%are rational expected utility maximizers, 24% make occasional mistakes …
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The expected utility hypothesis has a long successful tradition in economics. However, behavioral anomalies confound it when utility depends solely on the absolute level of wealth. Harry Markowitz (1952) suggested that the anomalies might be resolved if utility could be augmented to endogenize...
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Common ratio effects should be ruled out if subjects' preferences satisfy compound independence, reduction of compound lotteries, and coalescing. In other words, at least one of these axioms should be violated in order to generate a common ratio effect. Relying on a simple experiment, we...
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