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We design and implement a novel experimental test of subjective expected utility theory and its generalizations. Our experiments are implemented in the laboratory with a student population, and pushed out through a large-scale panel to a general sample of the US population. We find that a...
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Ever since the emergence of economics as a distinct scientific discipline, policy makers have turned to economic models to guide policy interventions. If policy makers seek to enhance growth of an open capitalist economy, they have to take into account, firstly, the uncertainties,...
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Ever since the emergence of economics as a distinct scientific discipline, policy makers have turned to economic models to guide policy interventions. If policy makers seek to enhance growth of an open capitalist economy, they have to take into account, firstly, the uncertainties,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011422415
We propose and axiomatize a new model of incomplete preferences under uncertainty, which we call hope …
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data with a broad class of models of choice under risk and under uncertainty. Our method allows for risk loving and elation …
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broad class of models of choice under risk and under uncertainty. Unlike previous work, we do not require that the agent has …
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decision in the absence of ambiguity. We then show that uncertainty about the probability of side effects and the efficacy of … the vaccine always reduce take-up under ambiguity aversion. However, uncertainty about the underlying disease, being the … results are relevant for policy because reducing uncertainty associated with the vaccine always has the de-sired effect …
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We study an intertemporal consumption and portfolio choice problem under Knightian uncertainty in which agent …
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to be better educated and trained in how to approach decision making under uncertainty. If these quantitatively trained … players, playing the simplest game we can think of involving uncertainty and favourable odds, didn't play well, what hope is …
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We investigate whether violations of canonical axioms of choice under risk are mistakes or a manifestation of true preferences. First, we elicit axiom and gamble preferences and then allow subjects to revise their potentially conflicting preferences. Among the behavioral patterns that allow for...
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