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Individuals exhibit a randomization preference if they prefer random mixtures of two bets to each of the involved bets. Such preferences provide the foundation of various models of uncertainty aversion. However, it has to our knowledge not been empirically investigated whether uncertainty-averse...
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Although there are alternative models which can explain the Allais paradox with non-standard preferences, they do not take the emerging evidence on preference imprecision into account. The imprecision is so far incorporated into these models by adding a stochastic specification implying the...
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by previous experiments were replaced by small gifts in this experiment. Significant differences in risk attitudes were …
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expected utility should decrease if errors are excluded. The present paper presents an experiment which investigates this … ambiguity the exclusion of errors in contrast increases the violation rate significantly. In this sense the Ellsberg paradox can …
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differences lies in the dichotomy between first-order and second-order ambiguity aversion which I define here. My definition and …-order ambiguity aversion a positive exposure to ambiguity is optimal if and only if there is a subjective belief such that the actś … expected outcome is positive. With first-order ambiguity aversion, zero exposure to ambiguity can be optimal. Examples in …
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Although much of the theoretical literature on ambiguity works under the assumption of uncertainty aversion …
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