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processes we do not find that those subjects showing ambiguity aversion in an urn experiment based on Halevy (2007 …
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This paper experimentally investigates individual information acquisition and decisions in ambiguous situations in which the degree of ambiguity can endogenously and individually be decreased by the subjects. In particular, I analyze how risk aversion, ambiguity attitude and personality traits...
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We report a portfolio-choice experiment that enables us to estimate parametric models of ambiguity aversion at the …
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experiments. In the first experiment, we elicit the value and probability weighting functions both under known and unknown … probability transformations rather than utility transformations. In the second experiment, we examine the effects of an increase …
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The results of an experiment extending Ellsberg's setup demonstrate that attitudes towards ambiguity and compound … uncertainty are closely related. However, this association is much stronger when the second layer of uncertainty is subjective … probabilities, and (3) are ambiguity non-neutral. By decomposing ambiguity into risk and model uncertainty, and jointly eliciting …
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We implement an experiment to elicit subjects’ ambiguity attitudes in the spirit of Ellsberg’s three-color urn. The …
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We study in an experiment whether humans prefer to depend on decisions of other humans (social uncertainty) or states … other humans. This is the first experiment that studies social uncertainty that does not derive from a strategic situation … of nature (environmental uncertainty). In the social uncertainty treatments subjects depend only on past decisions of …
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This paper examines the distributional impact of increases to out-of-work transfers, increases to work-contingent transfers, and increases in higher rates of income tax over the whole of life. We find that, in contrast to what is implied by standard snapshot analyses, increases to...
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unknown probabilities, i.e., they are ambiguity averse. In an experiment, we examine subjects’ choices when there is an …
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A common conjecture in both the theoretical and policy literatures on development is that people remain poor because they are too impatient and risk averse to accumulate the resources needed to improve their well-being. The empirical literature, however, suggests that this conjecture is far from...
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