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This paper extends Savage's subjective approach to probability and utility from decision problems under exogenous uncertainty to choice in strategic environments. Interactive uncertainty is modeled both explicitly, using hierarchies of preference relations, the analogue of beliefs hierarchies,...
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Under state-dependent preferences, probabilities and units of scale of state-dependent utilities are not separately identified. In standard models, only their products matter to decisions. Separate identification has been studied under implicit actions by Drèze or under explicit actions and...
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We study the heritability of risk, uncertainty, and time preferences using a field experiment with a large sample of adult twins. We also offer a meta-analysis of existing findings. Our field study introduces a novel empirical approach that marries behavioral genetics with structural...
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affects probability weighting. More in general, this finding supports theories that represent ambiguity attitudes through …
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We investigate experimentally whether collective choice matters for individual attitudes to ambiguity. We consider a … observe high proportions of ambiguity averse choices in both individual and collective decision making. Although a majority of … participants display consistent ambiguity attitudes across their decisions, collective choice tends to foster ambiguity aversion …
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can be averse to partial information as a consequence of ambiguity aversion. It introduces a class of recursive … depart from the standard expected-utility theory. A new notion of ambiguity aversion, called Event Complementarity, exactly … characterizes aversion to partial information. Familiar static ambiguity-averse preferences are embedded into the general recursive …
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(Knightian uncertainty) and a roulette (objective risk). The class of scale-invariant (SI) ambiguity-averse preferences, in a … associated with SI ambiguity-averse preferences in terms of suitable weak independence axioms in place of scale invariance. …
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Two of the most well known regularities observed in preferences under risk and uncertainty are ambiguity aversion and …, together with other standard ones, is equivalent to a representation in which the agent (i) evaluates ambiguity using multiple …
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Call a mechanism that associates each profile of preferences over candidates to an ambiguous act an Ambiguous Social Function (ASCF). This paper studies the strategy-proofness of ASCFs. We find that an ASCF is unanimous and strategyproof if and only if there exists a nonempty subset of voters,...
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toward multiple‐prior uncertainties in terms of ambiguity and its corresponding compound risk. Our findings point to a shared …
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