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We study the problem of elicitation of subjective beliefs of an agent when the beliefs are ambiguous (the set of beliefs is a non-singleton set) and the agent's preference exhibits ambiguity aversion; in particular, as represented by alpha-maxmin preferences. We construct a direct revelation...
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This paper experimentally investigates individual information acquisition and decisions in ambiguous situations in … risk aversion, ambiguity attitude and personality traits are related to an individual’s information acquisition prior to a … decision and to the decision itself based on this information. I focus on urn decisions and conduct treatments that consider …
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This paper focuses on information acquisition and individual decision making in ambiguous situations and presents a … a priori unknown to subjects. By acquiring information about the probability distribution of the lottery’s payoff s … request more information. Moreover, we investigate whether the relation between attitudes towards risk and ambiguity is linked …
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One fundamental assumption often made in the literature on unawareness is that risk preferences are invariant to changes of awareness. We study how exposure to unawareness affects choices under risk. Participants in our experiment choose repeatedly between varying sure outcomes and a lottery in...
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One fundamental assumption often made in the literature on unawareness is that risk preferences are invariant to changes of awareness. We study how exposure to unawareness affects choices under risk. Participants in our experiment choose repeatedly between varying sure outcomes and a lottery in...
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In this article, we consider a demand model for a durable good with unknown quality. The quality of the good is uncertain in the sense that the consumer ignores (ex ante) whether the good will break down or not, higher quality implying a higher probability of survival. Taking into account this...
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market where information arrives sequentially over time to investigate the sources of these phenomena. We find that prices …-reaction decreases in magnitude when information announcement is perfectly public, but still persists. We reject behavioral explanations … over-reaction: when information arrives sequentially over time, the market is characterized by a slow convergence toward …
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technology in the market. Information about the market technology’s efficiency is publicly available, and thus can be acquired … information about the market technology. The reason is that, the principal uses uncertainty as a device to provide a truth …
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