Three experiments are presented that compare alternative explanations to the coexistence of risk aversion and under-diversification in investment decisions. The participants were asked to select one of several assets under two feedback conditions. In each case, one asset was a weighted...

Uncertainty pervades most aspects of life. From selecting a new technology to choosing a career, decision makers rarely know in advance the exact outcomes of their decisions. Whereas the consequences of decisions in standard decision theory are explicitly described (the decision from description...

This article compares classical expected utility (EU) with the more general rank-dependent utility (RDU) models. The difference between the independence condition for preferences of EU and its comonotonic generalization in RDU provides the exact demarcation between EU and rank-dependent models....

This paper suggests that part of the implied time Subjective Discount Rate (SDR) collected by Willingness To Pay (WTP) is an immediate premium. We offer a theoretical and experimental analysis of the gross SDR, which consists of the immediate premium and the net SDR (i.e., SDR less the immediate...