Showing 1 - 10 of 3,672
In prosocial decisions, decision-makers face interpersonal uncertainty - uncertainty about how their choices impact others' utility. We use three approaches to show how it shapes classic patterns of prosocial behavior like ingroup favoritism, merit-based fairness, and self-favoring behavior....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015199844
risk preferences. Here, we develop an analogous tool for choice under uncertainty - the ambiguity triangle - and show that … characterize this heterogeneity with finite-mixture estimates of a one-parameter extension of Expected Utility Theory wherein 48 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011289313
studied in a controlled lab experiment. We present a novel experiment where subjects can compete against each other, but the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012015779
Using a field experiment in China, we study whether migration status is correlated with attitudes toward risk … from non-migrants in risk and ambiguity preferences elicited using pairs of lotteries; however, migrants are significantly … competitive environment than by risk attitudes under state uncertainty. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010360288
This paper demonstrates gender differences in risk aversion and ambiguity aversion. It also contributes to a growing … of cognition. Women are more risk averse than men. Over an initial range, women require no further compensation for the … as men. Psychological variables account for some of the interpersonal variation in risk aversion. They explain none of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003808595
outcomes. Our evidence is based on an experiment in which subjects repeatedly invest in two identical, uncorrelated, risky … each period. Yet, internals are more likely to make inconsistent risk choices. The effect size of locus of control is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011865329
Probabilistic risk beliefs are key drivers of economic and health decisions, but people are not always certain about … measurable separately from the levels of risk beliefs. People with higher levels of imprecision update their beliefs more in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014390526
Using a new survey of firms in New Zealand, we document how exogenous variation in the macroeconomic uncertainty perceived by firms affects their economic decisions. We use randomized information treatments that provide different types of information about the first and/or second moments of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013329618
We analyze a long-term contracting problem involving common uncertainty about a parameter capturing the productivity of the relationship, and featuring a hidden action for the agent. We develop an approach that works for any utility function when the parameter and noise are normally distributed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009303458
The ex-ante evaluation of policies using structural econometric models is based on estimated parameters as a stand-in for the truth. This practice ignores uncertainty in the counterfactual policy predictions of the model. We develop a generic approach that deals with parametric uncertainty using...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012517558