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It is shown how to test revealed preference data on choices under uncertainty for consistency with first and second …
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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 …
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\ models the rankings for which the decision maker is sure. The second binary relation is an uncertainty averse preference, as … representing $\succsim^{{\small \wedge}}$. In this way, we show that Bewley preferences and uncertainty averse preferences, two … different approaches in modelling decision making under Knightian uncertainty, are complementary. As a by-product, we extend the …
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This paper suggests a new explanation for the low level of annuitization, which is valid even if one assumes perfect markets. We show that, as soon there exists a positive bequest motive, sufficiently risk averse individuals should not purchase annuities. A model calibration accounting for...
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Considering a consumer with standard preferences, I trace out the consequences for risk aversion and prudence of quantity constraints on markets. I first show how the effect can be decomposed into a price risk effect and an endogenously changing risk aversion/prudence effect. Next, I calibrate...
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In this paper, I consider a consumer with a concave utility function over n commodities and trace out the consequences of quantity constraints on product markets for the consumer's aversion towards income risk. I show that the effect can be decomposed in a cardinal and ordinal term, that both...
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uncertainty about future income triggers saving because of loss aversion. We extend their theoretical analysis to also consider …
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Given the possibility to modify the probability of a loss, will a profit-maximizing insurer engage in loss prevention or is it in his interest to increase the loss probability? This paper investigates this question. First, we calculate the expected profit maximizing loss probability within an...
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Assuming a risk-neutral bank and assuming household utility to be exponential, we show how under information symmetry the covariance of income and loan repayments may explain higher household borrowings than in the case without default option. Under ex post information asymmetry and positive...
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This paper studies the relation between concavity, stochastic or state dependent utility functions, and risk aversion. Using the common definition of risk aversion, but modified for state dependent preferences, we show that concavity does not imply risk aversion. Instead, it implies a weaker...
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