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One possible conclusion from recent experimental research on decision making under risk is that observed behaviour can … of the subjects and most of the choice problems under risk. However, it turns out that for decision problems under … plus error term may be regarded as a reasonable representation for choice under risk this does not seem to be true for …
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This paper derives a representation of preferences for a choice theory with vague environments; vague in the sense that …
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just obeying and, hence, to be irrational. In this paper we offer a different approach which postulates rationality of all …
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This paper provides a theoretical analysis regarding the rationality of suicide attacks from an economist’s point of … psychological concepts of cognitive dissonance and terror management theory into our economic analysis, we demonstrate why … – although predicted by standard economic theory – defection is a phenomenon rarely observed. We finally present some policy …
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In this paper, we propose an interpretation of the Hilbert space method used in quantum theory in the context of … decision making under uncertainty. For a clear comparison we will stay as close as possible to the framework of SEU suggested …-known paradoxa of decision theory. …
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Expected utility theory (EUT) is currently the standard framework which formally defines rational decision-making under … behaviour under utility theory is incompatible with scarcity of resources, making behaviour consistent with EUT irrational and …
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As illustrated by the famous Ellsberg paradox, many subjects prefer to bet on events with known rather than with unknown probabilities, i.e., they are ambiguity averse. In an experiment, we examine subjects’ choices when there is an additional source of ambiguity, namely, when they do not know...
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Experimental research on decision making under risk has until now always employed choice data in order to evaluate the …
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estimate of risk aversion ? and the time preference discount rate ? perindividual. This can be done because the consumption of …
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