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Choquet expected utility preferences. A decision maker is faced with an information structure represented by a filtration. We …
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We use a simple version of the Psychological Expected Utility Model (Caplin and Leahy, QJE, 2001) to analyze the …, the higher the efficiency of decision-making. We completely and explicitly characterize how anticipatory utility depends …
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We propose a new decision criterion under risk in which people extract both utility from anticipatory feelings ex ante … raises both the utility of ex ante feelings and the risk of disappointment ex post. We characterize the optimal beliefs and … the decision maker takes on less risk compared to an expected utility maximizer. This speaks to the equity premium puzzle …
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empirical performance of expected utility and the alternative nonexpected utility theories. The present paper performs a similar …
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In this paper we analyze a large sample of individual responses to six lottery questions. Wederive a simultaneous estimate of risk aversion ? and the time preference discount rate ? perindividual. This can be done because the consumption of a large prize is smoothed over a largertime period. It...
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be reasonable accommodated by expected utility plus an error term. This conclusion implies that the violation rate of … expected utility should decrease if errors are excluded. The present paper presents an experiment which investigates this … be regarded as a more serious challenge of expected utility than the Allais paradox. More general, while expected utility …
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empirical performance of expected utility and the alternative nonexpected utility theories. The present paper performs a similar …Diese Arbeit erweitert frühere Umfragen über den Nutzen der Technischen Analyse um die Flow Analyse als dritte Form der …
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Define the riskiness of a gamble as the reciprocal of the absolute risk aversion (ARA) of an individual with constant ARA who is indifferent between taking and not taking that gamble. We characterize this index by axioms, chief among them a “duality” axiom which, roughly speaking, asserts...
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In the expected-utility theory of the monetary value of a statistical life, the so-called "dead-anyway" effect … risk increases with the initial level of risk. Their reasoning is based on differences in the marginal utility of wealth …
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This paper derives a representation of preferences for a choice theory with vague environments; vague in the sense that … of these lotteries for each state. Thus, this paper's main departure from the standard subjective expected utility model … utility models and the behavior implied by the multiple priors models. …
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