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Ambiguity Aversion and Incompleteness of Financial Markets [PDF]
The Review of Economic Studies, 2001 It is widely thought that incomes risks can be shared by trading infinancial assets. But financial assets typically carry some riskidiosyncratic to them, hence, disposing incomes risk using financial assetswill involve buying into the inherent idiosyncratic risk.
Mukerji, Sujoy, Tallon, Jean-Marc
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Aversion to a sure loss: turning investors into gamblers [PDF]
Zbornik radova Ekonomskog fakulteta u Rijeci : časopis za ekonomsku teoriju i praksu, 2018 In situations where there is a lack of relevant information for proper decisionmaking, investors tend to be ambiguity-averse, opting for the probabilities with predictable outcomes.
Miroslav Ferenčak +3 more
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Review of Economics and StatisticsAbstract We report the results of two experiments designed to better understand the mechanisms driving decision making under ambiguity. We elicit individual preferences over different sources of uncertainty, entailing different degrees of complexity, from subjects with different sophistication levels.
Aydogan, Ilke +2 more
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Ambiguity Aversion and the Power of Established Brands [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2007 This paper investigates situations where a sizable sub-set of consumers prefer an inferior (dominated) offer made by an established brand to a superior (dominating) offer made by a less-established brand. Established brands are those for which consumers hold more confident beliefs concerning overall quality.
A. V. Muthukrishnan, Luc Wathieu
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Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Increased frequency of extreme weather events, particularly droughts, threatens grassland farming by destabilizing yields and farms' economic viability. We examine, theoretically and through numerical simulations, how sown plant diversity (natural insurance) influences the attractiveness of indemnity and drought index insurance (formal ...
Nicolas Alou +3 more
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Frontiers in Applied Mathematics and Statistics, 2018 Ellsberg paradox in decision theory posits that people will inevitably choose a known probability of winning over an unknown probability of winning even if the known probability is low [1].
Song-Ju Kim, Taiki Takahashi
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The Effects of Behavioral Foundations and Business Strategy on Corporate Dividend Policy
Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 This study analyzes the influence of behavioral foundation factors and corporate strategic behavior on the formulation of corporate dividend policy. We use the Logit model and the OLS model for estimating the empirical model. The year- and industry-fixed
Wen-Ju Liao +3 more
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Ambiguity aversion and the absence of wage indexation [PDF]
Journal of Monetary Economics, 2004 This paper analyzes optimal wage contracting assuming agents are not subjective expectedutility maximizers but are, instead, ambiguity (or uncertainty) averse decision makers whomaximize Choquet expected utility. We show that such agents will choose not to include anyindexation coverage in their wage contracts even when inflation is uncertain, unless ...
Tallon, Jean-Marc, Mukerji, Sujoy
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Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper explores the convergence in on‐farm diversification strategies of agricultural holdings, between remote areas and more central ones. Using Italian farm‐level data, we explore the determinants of diversification strategies across farms.
Gianluca Grilli +2 more
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A Dual Approach to Ambiguity Aversion [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2014 Economics Working Paper Series, 14 ...
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