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In this paper we consider the effect of ambiguity on the private provision of public goods. Equilibrium is shown to …
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We provide an evolutionary foundation to evidence that in some situations humans maintain optimistic or pessimistic attitudes towards uncertainty and are ignorant to relevant aspects of the environment. Players in strategic games face Knightian uncertainty about opponents' actions and maximize...
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Many theories have been developed to model decision behavior under ambiguity. In this paper we empirically investigate …
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-additive survival beliefs expressing ambiguity attitudes. We embed these neo-additive survival beliefs as decision weights in a Choquet …
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Abstract By analogy with the classical case of a probability measure, we extend the notion of increasing convex (concave) stochastic dominance relation to the case of a normalized monotone (but not necessarily additive) set function also called a capacity. We give different characterizations...
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We examine the impact of ambiguity on economic behaviour. We present a relatively non-technical account of ambiguity … and show how it may be applied in economics. Optimistic and pessimistic responses to ambiguity are formally modelled. We … also examine the effects of ambiguity on peace processes. It is shown that ambiguity can act to select equilibria in …
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We provide an evolutionary foundation to evidence that in some situations humans maintain optimistic or pessimistic attitudes towards uncertainty and are ignorant to relevant aspects of the environment. Players in strategic games face Knightian uncertainty about opponents' actions and maximize...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276584
with a probability distribution. Consequently, they do not allow for Knightian uncertainty, or ambiguity, with respect to … accident risk and cannot accommodate optimism (ambiguity loving) or pessimism (ambiguity aversion). This paper presents a … unilateral accident model under ambiguity. To incorporate ambiguity, I adopt the Choquet expected utility framework and represent …
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utility functions, where concavity is an expression of ambiguity aversion and/or risk aversion. This paper extends the … analysis to α-maxmin expected utility, Choquet expected utility, and Cumulative Prospect Theory, which accommodate ambiguity …
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We seek an evolutionary explanation for why in some situations humans maintain either optimistic or pessimistic attitudes towards uncertainty and are ignorant to relevant aspects of their environment. Players in strategic games face Knightian uncertainty about opponents' actions and maximize...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012655881