We consider an experimental setting where agents receive one stylized piece of information at a time about the value of a lottery. We find that Knightian uncertainty about the prior distribution of true lottery values does not hamper decision making by agents and markets. On a mean squared error...

This research verifies the existence of the aversion to uncertainty bias in individual financial decisions. It also evaluates the effects of gender and knowledge in this bias. We considered a sample of 80 undergraduate management students from Universidade Católica de Brasília. The results...