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We conduct a laboratory experiment to study how locus of control operates through people's preferences and beliefs to influence their decisions. Using the principal-agent setting of the delegation game, we test four key channels that conceptually link locus of control to decision-making: (i)...
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A conservation good, such as the rainforest, is a hostage: it is possessed by S who may prefer to consume it, but B receives a larger value from continued conservation. A range of prices would make trade mutually beneficial. So, why doesn't B purchase conservation, or the forest, from S?
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Risk and time are intertwined. The present is known while the future is inherently risky. Discounted expected utility … robust violations of discounted expected utility, inconsistent with both prospect theory probability weighting and models …
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to estimate random utility models, as if they are data on actual choices. Stated choices may differ from actual ones …. This paper shows how to use elicited choice probabilities to estimate random utility models with random coefficients and …
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-pecuniary component of utility associated with each choice alternative. Previous work has found that, without parametric restrictions or …-pecuniary component of utility associated with each choice alternative. We develop nonparametric estimators corresponding to two …
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This paper examines the effects of alternative assumptions regarding the curvature of utility upon estimated discount … the Holt and Laury method for risk. The results demonstrate that utility elicited directly from choice over time is … significantly concave, but far closer to linear than utility elicited under risk. As a result, the effect of adjusting discount …
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expected utility (GEU) to the diversification of agents who maximize the conventional expected utility (EU). Specifically, we … derive the patterns of diversification for agents who maximize a rank-dependent' expected utility, attaching more weight to … bad' than to good' outcomes, in contrast to the probability weights used in a conventional expected utility maximization …
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