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We apply utility indifference pricing to solve a contingent claim problem, valuing a connected pair of gas fields where the underlying process is not standard Geometric Brownian motion and the assumption of complete markets is not fulfilled. First, empirical data are often characterized by...
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We study a two-stage R&D project with an abandonment option. Two types of uncertainty influence the decision to start R …&D. Demand uncertainty is modelled as a lottery between a proportional increase and decrease in demand. Technical uncertainty is … modelled as a lottery between a decrease and increase in the cost to continue R&D. We relate differences in uncertainty to …
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their risk aversion parameter invest less in risky assets than wealthy investors with identical risk aversion uncertainty. …
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We investigate the major choice of college graduates where we make choice dependent on expected initial wages and expected wage growth per major. We build a model that allows us to estimate these factors semiparametrically and that corrects for selection bias. We estimate the model on the...
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We report a portfolio-choice experiment that enables us to estimate parametric models of ambiguity aversion at the level of the individual subject. The assets are Arrow securities that correspond to three states of nature, where one state is risky with known probability and two states are...
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rates. The single agent, in a dynamic exchange economy, treats the conditional uncertainty about the consumption and …‐free rate in data and measure the uncertainty each period conditional on the actual, observed history of (U.S.) macroeconomic … growth outcomes. Ambiguity aversion accentuates the effect of conditional uncertainty endogenously in a dynamic way …
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This paper demonstrates that well-established biases in decision making under uncertainty can generate poverty traps. A …
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In criminal cases the task of the judge is to transform the uncertainty about the facts into the certainty of the …
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Many empirical studies on intertemporal choice report preference reversals in the sensethat a preference between a small reward to be received soon and a larger reward to bereceived later reverses as both rewards are equally delayed. Such preference reversals arecommonly interpreted as...
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The origin of prospect theory is the desire to test the intuitive statistician in the real world. The development of this theory by the cognitive psychologists Kahneman and Tversky can be traced to the former's work in cognitive psychophysics, in which deviations from average behavior are termed...
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