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We carry out a repeated game of demand for typhoon insurance in China to study how the availability heuristic and gambler's fallacy affect that demand in both short term and long terms. We find that after people experience the first typhoon in the experiment, the availability heuristic dominates...
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Testing whether risk professionals (here insurers) behave differently under risk and ambiguity when they cover catastrophic risks (floods and earthquakes) and non-catastrophic risks (fires), this paper reports the results of the first field experiment in the United States designed to distinguish...
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In this experimental study, we compare the influence of risk communication in the form of stories versus statistics on the level of investment in a resilience-promoting activity. We also analyze how this influence interacts with time gap and with an individual's preferences for risk and numbers....
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In this experimental study, we compare the influence of risk communication in the form of stories versus statistics on the level of investment in a resilience-promoting activity. We also analyze how this influence interacts with time gap and with an individual’s preferences for risk and...
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