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suggesting that under Rank Dependent Utility and an expo-power function, students exhibit similar risk attitudes to subjects … particular they adopt the framework of Expected Utility theory and a Constant Relative Risk Aversion function, their estimation …
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The study tests the cardinal utility maximization hypothesis by an experimental procedure in a framework of utility … scaling approach following the psychophysical-econometric paradigm, conceived in He (Psychophysical Interpretation for Utility … Measures, 2011). It reveals (i) the utility maximization can be tested and has been supported by experimental results; (ii) the …
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focuses on context-specific empirical studies. We use a public good game experiment with endogenous groups to investigate how …
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Seminal models of herd behaviour and informational cascades point out existence of negative information externalities, and propose to ?destroy? information in order to achieve social improvements. Although in the last years many features of herd behaviour and informational cascades have been...
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This paper presents an experimental test of several independence conditions implied by expected utility and alternative … models. We perform a repeated choice experiment and fit an error model that allows us to discriminate between true violations …
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probabilities. Rank dependent utility and cumulative prospect theory imply that the Allais paradoxes are due to violations of …
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In many poor countries with high emigration rates elderly people are left behind without care when their children migrate. Without a functioning market in private care migrants face a difficult trade-off between working their way out of poverty and providing informal care once their parents...
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This paper is concerned with the axiomatic foundation of the revealed preference theory. Many well-known results in literature rest upon the ability to choose over budget sets that contains only 2 or 3 elements, the situations which are not observable in real life. In order to give a more...
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Why do we love stories? That this is not an idle question is shown by the fact that we spend an enormous amount of time in our lives following stories: telling and listening to them; reading them; watching them on television or in films or on stage. Despite their recurrent similarity and even...
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isoelastic utility, in which the consumption discount rate is a function of the (constant) elasticity of marginal utility along … with the (much discussed) utility discount rate. In this model, the elasticity of marginal utility simultaneously reflects … surveying the attitudes of over 3000 people to risk, income inequality over space and income inequality over time. The results …
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