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Ambiguity refers to a decision situation under uncertainty when there is incomplete information about the likelihood of … ambiguity and ambiguity aversion. …
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We present a non-technical account of ambiguity in strategic games and show how it may be applied to economics and … social sciences. Optimistic and pessimistic responses to ambiguity are formally modelled. We show that pessimism has the … ambiguity on peace-making are examined. It is shown that ambiguity may select equilibria in coordination games with multiple …
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strategic ambiguity may induce such behaviour. …
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Two rationality arguments are used to justify the link between conditional and unconditional preferences in decision theory: dynamic consistency and consequentialism. Dynamic consistency requires that ex ante contingent choices are respected by updated preferences. Consequentialism states that...
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We consider individual's portfolio selection problems. Introducing the concept of ambiguity, we show the existence of … are represented by the Choquet integral with respect to the inner measure. Under the concept of ambiguity, it is … probabilities. Furthermore, we study the difference between ambiguity and uncertainty by considering investors' behavior. …
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This paper's objective is to design a laboratory experiment to explore the effect of ambiguity on a subject's search … faced with ambiguity over wage distributions. …
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We provide an evolutionary foundation to evidence that in some situations humans maintain optimistic or pessimistic attitudes towards uncertainty and are ignorant to relevant aspects of the environment. Players in strategic games face Knightian uncertainty about opponents' actions and maximize...
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We present a non-technical account of ambiguity in strategic games and show how it may be applied to economics and … social sciences. Optimistic and pessimistic responses to ambiguity are formally modelled. We show that pessimism has the … ambiguity on peace-making are examined. It is shown that ambiguity may select equilibria in coordination games with multiple …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010333999
proposed a very general axiomatisation of preferences in the presence of ambiguity, viz. Monotonic Bernoullian Archimedean (MBA …
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This paper provides a systematic analysis of individual attitudes towards ambiguity, based on laboratory experiments …. The design of the analysis allows to capture individual behavior across various levels of ambiguity, ranging from low to … high. Attitudes towards risk and attitudes towards ambiguity are disentangled, providing pure measures of ambiguity …
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