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Many important economic and political decisions are made by teams. In the economic literature, however, the decision … principles of Expected Utility Theory (EUT) and of Portfolio Selection Theory (PST). The experiment is performed with individuals … a team decision algorithm, excess-risk vetoing, that combines simple majority voting with the right to veto alternatives …
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which may be reduced to requiring initial wealth to be total lifetime wealth of the decision maker. Still, even when initial …
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In this paper I analyze operational measure of riskiness defi ned by Foster and Hart (2007). I give simple intuition behind their main result. Then I extend the concept of riskiness measure in two respects - I de fine a generalized riskiness measure based on decreasing absolute risk aversion...
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In developing world, the risk behavior of farmers is very crucial as their daily risk and uncertainty decisions affect their livelihood and overall well-being in the long run. Recent studies related to risky choices among poor farmers found varied results in various countries. Present study...
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Politicians, CEOs and various other types of dictators make social choices that influence both their own and others' welfare. When a dictator's preferred alternative differs from recipients', it is unclear which preferences they aggregate and how they determine this set of admissible...
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Previous research indicates that risky and uncertain marginal returnsfrom the public good significantly lower contributions. This paper presentsexperimental results illustrating that the effects of risk and uncertainty dependon the employed parameterization. Specifically, if the value of the...
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We elicit subjects' willingness to pay to reduce future risk. In our experiments, subjects are given a cash endowment and a risky lottery. They report their willingness to pay to exchange the risky lottery for a safe one. Subjects play the lottery either immediately, eight weeks later, or...
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We analyze data from experimental auctions of orange maize in rural Zambia using the Becker-deGroot-Marschak (BDM) mechanism to estimate the willingness-to-pay (WTP) for the maize. Further, BDM data is combined with first-price auction data to estimate individual risk attitudes. The orange maize...
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A robust finding in economics is that decision-makers often exhibit a much smaller dollar willingness to pay (WTP) for …
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