In this paper we model taxpayers reactions to the possibility of either reporting income as usual and running the risk of an audit or reporting a "cutoff" income and paying a threshold tax that gives the certainty of not being audited. Models of this kind already discussed in the literature...

We exploit a high-stakes quasi-field setting to estimate attitudes towards both risk and strategic ambiguity. Participants make a sequence of binary choices, either between a sure thing and a risky alternative, or between a sure thing and an alternative that is contingent on the unobserved...

The COVID-19 outbreak has generated significant uncertainty about the future, especially for young adults. Health and economic threats, as well as more diffuse concerns about the consequences of COVID-19, can trigger feelings of anxiety, leading individuals to adopt uncertainty-reducing...

This paper presents the outcome of a dynamic price-descending auction when the distribution of the private values is uncertain and bidders exhibit ambiguity aversion. In contrast to sealed-bid auctions, in open auctions the bidders get information about the other bidders' private values and may...

We introduce new graphical displays that present binary choice lotteries via three dimensional rotating pie charts whose heights represent the prize amounts. We compare four graphical versions to the original text-only Holt & Laury (2002) multiple price list. Parametric and non-parametric...

We explore a variety of risk preference elicitation procedures that involve direct choice from a set of lotteries, including budget lines (BL) and binary choice lists (HL). We find statistically significant violations of the expected utility hypothesis (EUH) consistent with disappointment...

We explore a variety of risk preference elicitation procedures that involve direct choice from a set of lotteries, including budget lines (BL) and binary choice lists (HL). We find statistically significant violations of the expected utility hypothesis (EUH) consistent with disappointment...

Simulations indicated that, in the class of 2 x 2 games which only have a mixed equilibrium, payoffs are increased by risk aversion compared to risk neutrality. In this paper I show that the total expected payoff to a player over this class in equilibrium is indeed higher if this player is risk...

Analagous to the notion of greater risk aversion being that the resulting utility function v = φ(u) is a concave transformation φ of the original utility function u (i.e., φ′′ < 0); the apparent definition of v being more downside risk averse is that φ′ is convex (i.e., φ′′′ > 0). This definition, however, suffers from logical inconsistencies as an ordering. We propose, instead, the...</0);>

A simplified definition of comparative ambiguity aversion (or uncertainty aversion, or aversion to Knightian uncertainty) via probability equivalents of binary Savage (1954) acts is proposed. Absolute ambiguity aversion is then defined as ambiguity aversion relative to a benchmark ambiguity...