Preventive dental care and automotive service is intended to prevent problems that, if they materialized, would require costly treatment or repair. In these markets fraud is both persistent and pervasive. This paper analyzes these markets invoking the notion of weak perfect Bayesian equilibrium...

In this paper, we report the results of experiments designed to test whether individuals and groups abide by the axioms of monotonicity, with respect to first-order stochastic dominance and Bayesian updating, when making decisions in the face of risk. The results indicate a significant number of...

Wakker (1990) showed that under natural conditions the Choquet expected utility (CEU) and the rank-dependent utility (RDU) models are identical. Invoking Wakker's result and applying the certainty equivalent reduction procedure, this paper shows that risk aversion in the RDU model implies...