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This paper describes the results of a web-based multi-period insurance purchasing experiment focusing on how … observe. The majority of individuals (63 percent) behaved in ways that were consistent with expected utility theory, although …
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This paper describes the results of a web-based multi-period insurance purchasing experiment focusing on how … observe. The majority of individuals (63 percent) behaved in ways that were consistent with expected utility theory, although …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013029548
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Experimental research on decision making under risk has until now always employed choice data in order to evaluate the empirical performance of expected utility and the alternative nonexpected utility theories. The present paper performs a similar analysis which relies on pricing data instead of...
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by previous experiments were replaced by small gifts in this experiment. Significant differences in risk attitudes were …
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Popular models for decision making under ambiguity assume that people use not one but multiple priors. This paper is a first attempt to experimentally elicit the min and the max of multiple priors directly. In an ambiguous scenario we measure a participant's single prior, her min and max of...
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In the expected-utility theory of the monetary value of a statistical life, the so-called dead-anyway effect discovered …
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The agriculture sector observed the penetration of parametric weather risk financial products, including weather index insurance and weather derivatives, between the late 1990s and the early 2000s. However, the adoption of such products remains low. While the reasons for low adoption are...
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In the expected-utility theory of the monetary value of a statistical life, the so-called "dead-anyway" effect …
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