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We empirically compare the consistency among several measures of risk-taking and patience by evaluating how these … tentatively conclude that relatively low-cost elicitation measures can be used to predict individual decision-making. Accounting …
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We consider a standard one-agent decision-making problem under risk and we address the following question: under what … conditions is utility maximization equivalent to 'risk' minimization, where the measure of risk used by the decision-maker is a … conservative coherent risk measure? …
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We address the problem of choosing a portfolio of policies under "deep uncertainty." We introduce the idea of belief dominance as a way to derive a set of non-dominated portfolios and robust individual alternatives. Our approach departs from the tradition of providing a single recommended...
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specification includes two parameters: one for ambiguity attitudes and another for risk attitudes. We also estimate a three …
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A risky choice experiment is based on one-dimensional choice variables and risk neutrality induced via binary lottery …
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The experiment reported in this paper identifies the effect of experience on revealed risk attitudes by examining “one …-shot” insurance choices made by subjects faced with a low-probability risk and their choices when they are faced with repeated … exposure to an identical risk. I find that subjects engaged in greater risk taking when making repeated choices. Estimates from …
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a team decision algorithm, excess-risk vetoing, that combines simple majority voting with the right to veto alternatives …Many important economic and political decisions are made by teams. In the economic literature, however, the decision … extent observed team decisions under risk are actually consistent with the principles of rational choice, specifically the …
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The disposition effect is a well-established phenomenon which describes the behavior of investors that are more willing to sell capital gains than capital losses. In this article we present experimental evidence on a situation where an investor decides on behalf of another person. In our...
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We experimentally test overconfidence in investment decisions by offering participants the possibility to substitute their own for alternative investment choices. Overall, 149 subjects participated in two experiments, one with just one risky asset, the other with two risky assets. Overconfidence...
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Prospect Theory (PT) and Constant Relative Risk Aversion (CRRA) have clear-cut implications for the optimal asset … allocation between stocks and the risk-free asset as a function of the investment horizon. While CRRA preferences imply that the …
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