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Previous research has documented strong peer effects in risk taking, but little is known about how such social influences affect market outcomes. Since the consequences of social interactions are hard to isolate in financial data, we design an experimental asset market with multiple risky assets...
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Previous research has documented strong peer effects in risk taking, but little is known about how such social influences affect market outcomes. The consequences of social interactions are hard to isolate in financial data, and theoretically it is not clear whether peer effects should increase...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010411254
This paper investigates beliefs in an ambiguous environment. In contrast to many previous studies, the beliefs … regarding possible scenarios are measured independently from attitudes. We use laboratory experiments to estimate the entire … distribution of subjective beliefs and examine how beliefs are updated, incorporating new information. We find that beliefs and …
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Decisions under ambiguity depend on the beliefs regarding possible scenarios and the attitude towards ambiguity. This … paper exclusively focuses on beliefs, and beliefs are measured independently from attitudes, in contrast to many previous … studies. We use laboratory experiments to estimate the subjective belief formation and belief updating process in an ambiguous …
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experiments how much effect each factor can induce. We apply both non-parametric and parametric methods to cleanly separate the … degree of ambiguity is high. As information accumulates, ambiguity premiums decrease. We also find that beliefs do influence … prices under ambiguity. This is not because beliefs are biased towards either good or bad scenarios per se, but because …
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