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One fundamental assumption often made in the literature on unawareness is that risk preferences are invariant to … changes of awareness. We study how exposure to unawareness affects choices under risk. Participants in our experiment choose …
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One fundamental assumption often made in the literature on unawareness is that risk preferences are invariant to … changes of awareness. We study how exposure to unawareness affects choices under risk. Participants in our experiment choose …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011764847
Overconfidence is one of the most ubiquitous cognitive bias. There is copious evidence of overconfidence being relevant in a diverse set of economic domains. In this paper, we relate the recent concept of cognitive uncertainty with overconfidence. Cognitive uncertainty represents a decision...
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of behavior under risk ; then we look at dynamic theories under risk; and finally look at decision making under ambiguity … number of methodological issues concerning the conduct of experiments, and relating to the econometric analysis of the data …
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We propose the Virtual Bingo Blower (VBB) as a way to generate credible risk and ambiguity in computerized experiments …
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We study in an experiment whether humans prefer to depend on decisions of other humans (social uncertainty) or states of nature (environmental uncertainty). In the social uncertainty treatments subjects depend only on past decisions of other humans. This is the first experiment that studies...
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find that individuals' risk preferences are predictive for giving in both experiments. Increased risk exposure of … consequences. Although risk preferences are likely important, existing research is silent about how social and risk preferences … not exposed to risk while beneficiaries' final earnings may be larger or smaller than the allocation itself, depending on …
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disclosed the payoff structure; (2) the choice treatment in the context of SDM under risk, where the decision makers are … distribution lead to robust deviations from maximisation. The results of the choice treatment show that the risk-averse decision …
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Both economists and psychologists are interested in understanding decision making under uncertainty. Yet, they rely on different concepts to analyse human behaviour: Economists use economic preference parameters rooted in utility theory, while psychologists use personality traits to describe...
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of the degree of ambiguity, competence, and familiarity. This study goes beyond valuation experiments to examine the …
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