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This paper introduces changes in the level of ambiguity as a complementary source of time-varying risk aversion. We … ambiguity raises investors' risk aversion. The effect is quantified in an application to European sovereign debt markets using a … structural VAR to achieve identification in the data. We proxy for ambiguity using a measure of macroeconomic uncertainty and …
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Two partners try to dissolve a partnership that owns an asset of ambiguous value, where the value is determined ex post by a draw from an Ellsberg urn. In a within-subject experiment, subjects make decisions in three different bargaining mechanisms: unstructured bargaining, the Texas shoot-out,...
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We consider the cost of providing incentives using tournaments when workers are inequity averse and performance evaluation is costly. The principal never benefits from empathy to align incentives in a moral hazard framework between the workers, but he may benefit from their propensity for envy...
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This paper analyses the formation of international environmental agreements (IEAs) under uncertainty, focusing on the role of learning and risk aversion. It bridges two strands of literature: one focused on the role learning for the success of IEA formation when countries are risk neutral and...
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