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altruism. The question we address in this experimental study is how B reacts to the intentions of A. We vary the probability …
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' beliefs. Various proposals connected with the concept of mixed strategy Nash equilibrium do not match this description. On the … other hand minimax regret obeys all the axioms. Therefore we use minimax regret to approximate players' beliefs and we let … players best respond to these conjectured beliefs. When compared with existing experimental evidences about one shot matching …
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Since Kahneman and Tversky (1979), it has been generally recognized that decision makers overweight low probabilities and underweight high probabilities. Of the several weighting functions that have been proposed, that of Prelec (1998) has the attractions that it is parsimonious, consistent with...
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of extremely low probability and treat extremely high probability events as certain. Decision models, such as rank … dependent utility (RDU) and cumulative prospect theory (CP), use probability weighting functions. Existing probability weighting … presence of fixed costs and actuarially unfair premiums, to insure fully against losses of sufficiently low probability. This …
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We develop a general theory of intertemporal choice: the reference-time theory, RT. RT is a synthesis of ideas from the hyperbolic model and subadditivity of time discounting. These models are extended to allow for a reference point for time as well as wealth. RT is able to account for all the 6...
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In a critique of the Loewenstein and Prelec (1992) theory of intertemporal choice, al-Nowaihi and Dhami (2006) point out to four errors. One of the alleged errors was that the value function in prospect theory is decreasing. But it is in fact increasing. We provide a correction and a formal...
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Two of the anomalies of the exponentially discounted utility model are the 'magnitude effect' (larger magnitudes are discounted less) and the 'sign effect' (a loss is discounted less than a gain of the same magnitude). The literature has followed Loewenstein and Prelec (1992) in attributing the...
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We develop a general theory of intertemporal choice: the reference-time theory, RT. RT is a synthesis of ideas from the generalized hyperbolic model (Loewenstein and Prelec 1992), the quasi-hyperbolic model (Phelps and Pollak 1968, Laibson 1997) and subadditivity of time discounting (Roelofsma...
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A critical element in all discounted utility models is the specification of a discount function. We introduce three functions: the delay, speedup and generating functions. Each can be uniquely elicited from behaviour. The delay function determines stationary and the common difference effect. The...
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A critical element in all discounted utility models is the specification of a discount function. We extend the standard model to allow for reference points for both out- comes and time. We consider the axiomatic foundations and properties of two main classes of discount functions. The first, the...
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