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temptations and pitfalls of model-land, some directions towards the exit, and two ways to escape. Their aim is to improve decision …
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Under state-dependent preferences, probabilities and units of scale of state-dependent utilities are not separately identified. In standard models, only their products matter to decisions. Separate identification has been studied under implicit actions by Drèze or under explicit actions and...
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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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This paper extends choice theory by allowing for the interaction between cognitive costs and imitative dynamics. The …
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Expected utility theory (EUT) is currently the standard framework which formally defines rational decision-making under … behaviour under utility theory is incompatible with scarcity of resources, making behaviour consistent with EUT irrational and …
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explained. We also present estimates for risk and stochasticity parameters; the former are not correlated across mechanisms, but …
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confidence and ambiguity attitudes in individual decision making. Different ambiguity settings not only can be determined by the … lack of information in possible scenarios completely “external” to the decision-maker, but can also be a consequence of the … decision maker’s ignorance about her own characteristics or performance and, thus, deals with confidence. We design a …
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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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utility all predict unequivocally that risk-averse decision makers (DMs) will avoid the 50 - 50 urn that exhibits the highest … experiment where the decision maker draws twice with replacement in the typical Ellsberg two-color urns, but with a different … risk conceivable, while risk-seeking DMs do the opposite. However, we observe a substantial number of violations in the …
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Observed international diversification implies an investment home bias (IHB). Can bivariate preferences with a local domestic peer group rationalize the IHB? For example, it is argued that wishing to have a large correlation with the Standard and Poor's 500 stock index (S&P 500 stock index) may...
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