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consequences. By properly assessing the outcomes involved - especially those concerning human life - economic theory of choice … under uncertainty is expected to help people take the best decision. However, the widely used expected utility theory values …
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consequences. By properly assessing the outcomes involved – especially those concerning human life – economic theory of choice … under uncertainty is expected to help people take the best decision. However, the widely used expected utility theory values …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010608174
We report an experimental test of the four touchstones of rationality in choice under risk – utility maximization, stochastic dominance, expected-utility maximization and small-stakes risk neutrality – with students from one of the best universities in the United States and one of the best...
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The article distinguishes the scientist of the opinable thing, because the epistemology must explain: the nature and the path to obtain the concepts and scientific theories; the methodology with which one threads the laws and theories that give sustenance to sciences. This is the importance of...
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As in any research field, risk theory has its important questions, results, and paradoxes, as well as its seminal … papers and key authors. Louis Eeckhoudt has been a key author in the field of risk theory. To celebrate his many … contributions to the literature, and provides some illustrations of the remarkable research saga in risk theory over the last 50 …
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I analyze two expected utility models which abandon the consequentialist assumption of terminal wealth positions. In the expected utility of gambling wealth model, in which initial wealth is allowed to be small, I show that a large WTA/WTP gap is possible and the (Rabin in Econometrica, 68(5),...
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The economic theory of decision making under risk has seen remarkable advances over the 50 years since Pratt’s (1964 …
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experimental data. We investigate if there is a risky choice theory that fits group decisions better than alternative theories, and … individuals as well as by small groups. However, in the group experiment, alternatives (and, most notably, disappoint aversion …
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experiential feedback on choice outcomes are provided. The relevance of Regret Theory in travel behavior has been well demonstrated …-choice experiment involving different levels of travel time variability, discrete-choice models accounting for regret aversion effects …
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This paper axiomatizes Cobb-Douglas preferences under uncertainty. First, we extend the original Trockel (Econ Lett 30:7–10, <CitationRef CitationID="CR46">1989</CitationRef>)’s axiomatic foundation to a general state space framework based on the Strong Homotheticity Axiom, obtaining also the incomplete case a la Bewley (Decis Econ...</citationref>
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