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This paper examines the role of simplified heuristics in the formation of preferences for public goods. Political scientists have suggested that voters use simplified heuristics based on the positions of familiar parties to infer how a proposed policy will affect them and to cast a vote in line...
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The results of a new experimental study reveal highly systematic violations of expected utility theory. The pattern of these violations is exactly the opposite of the classical common ratio effect discovered by Allais (1953). Two recent decision theories— stochastic expected utility theory...
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This paper presents an axiomatic model of probabilistic choice under risk. In this model, when it comes to choosing one …
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theory such as the fourfold pattern of risk attitudes, the discrepancy between certainty equivalent and probability …
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Economic research offers two traditional ways of analyzing decision making under risk. One option is to compare the …
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An important source of conflict surrounding nuclear energy is that with a very small probability, a large-scale nuclear accident may occur. One way to internalize the financial risks associated with such an accident is through mandatory liability insurance. This paper presents estimates of the...
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In November 2005, 55.7 percent of 2 million Swiss voters approved a 5-year moratorium (ban) on the commercial cultivation of genetically modified (GM) plants within Switzerland. The present study examines how individual voting decisions were determined by (i) socioeconomic characteristics, (ii)...
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literature on the role of landscape amenities in local economic change. Following common amenity definitions, we define landscape … amenities as landscape features that are location-specific, latent non-market input goods that directly enter residents’ utility …-country migrants were attracted by amenities about as frequently as by a low tax burden. Effects of amenities on employment and income …
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materialize over time. Because risk and delay often arise simultaneously, theories of decision making should be capable of … explaining how behavior under risk and over time interacts. There is, in fact, a growing body of evidence indicating important … interactions between behaviorally revealed risk tolerance and patience. Risk taking behavior is delay dependent, and time …
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The economic concept of the second-best involves the idea that multiple simultaneous deviations from a hypothetical first-best optimum may be optimal once the first-best itself can no longer be achieved, since one distortion may partially compensate for another. Within an evolutionary framework,...
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