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to an ambiguity averse preference for a randomized act. Building on this insight, we implement an experiment whose design …
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We use a controlled laboratory experiment to study the causal impact of income decreases within a time period on …
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Risk ; Large Losses ; Natural Experiment …
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The provision of global public goods, such as climate change mitigation and managing fisheries to avoid overharvesting, requires the coordination of national contributions. The contributions are managed by elected governments who, in turn, are subject to public pressure on the matter. In an...
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The results of an experiment extending Ellsberg's setup demonstrate that attitudes towards ambiguity and compound …
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Anscombe and Aumann (1963) offer a definition of subjective probability in terms of comparisons with objective probabilities. That definition - which has provided the basis for much of the succeeding work on subjective probability - presumes that the subjective probability of an event is...
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We experimentally explore decision-making under uncertainty using a framework that decomposes uncertainty into three distinct layers: (1) physical uncertainty, entailing inherent randomness within a given probability model, (2) model uncertainty, entailing subjective uncertainty about the...
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We review some of the (theoretical) economic implications of David Schmeidler's models of decision under uncertainty (Choquet expected utility and maxmin expected utility) in competitive market settings. We start with the portfolio inertia result of Dow and Werlang (1992), show how it does or...
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In this paper, preferences for income redistribution in Switzerland are elicited through a Discrete Choice Experiment …
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