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high. Attitudes towards risk and attitudes towards ambiguity are disentangled, providing pure measures of ambiguity … aversion. Ambiguity aversion is captured in several ways, i.e. as a discount factor net of a risk premium, and as an estimated … intermediate levels of ambiguity aversion. Moreover, we find risk aversion to be statistically unrelated to ambiguity aversion on …
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We analyze spectral risk measures with respect to comparative risk aversion following Arrow (1965) and Pratt (1964) on … widely-applied spectral Arrow-Pratt-measure is not a consistent measure of Arrow-Pratt-risk aversion. A decision maker with a … decision maker with a smaller spectral Arrow-Pratt-measure. We further show how a proper measure of Arrow-Pratt-risk aversion …
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riskiness to continuous random variables. For many continuous random variables, the risk measure is equal to the worst-case risk … measure, i.e. the maximal possible loss incurred by that gamble. We also extend the Foster-Hart risk measure to dynamic …
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Auctions often involve goods exhibiting a common knowledge ex-post risk. Precautionary bidding predicts that under … expected utility, ex-post risk leads DARA bidders to reduce their bids by more than the appropriate risk premium. Because the … degree of riskiness of the good, and bidders risk aversion, are difficult to observe in field settings, we conduct …
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The present paper reports a repeated experiment on decision making under risk where subjects have to tackle the same …
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Ambiguity aversion has shown to be economically relevant and has been proposed as an explanation for many phenomena in … economics and finance. While the literature has suggested a large variety of elicitation methods to measure ambiguity … consistency of individual ambiguity preferences elicited using a variety of incentivized tasks, non-incentivized thought …
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maker exhibits a consistent tradeoff between risk and ambiguity concerns. Under our representation of her preferences, any …We propose and axiomatically characterize a representation of ambiguity sensitive preferences. The distinguishing … ambiguity. …
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axiomatised preferences in the presence of ambiguity as Monotonic Bernoullian Archimedean (MBA) preferences. We investigate the …
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using an experimental approach. We test for the effects of ethnic discrimination with regards to risk sharing by conducting …
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of unexpected uncertainty increase, plants reduce their employment size in order to decrease the default risk that arises …
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