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Ambiguity aversion, modern Bayesianism and small worlds. [PDF]
Pittis N +4 more
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There is a large theoretical literature in both economics and psychology on decision making under ambiguity (as distinct from risk) and many preference functionals proposed in this literature for describing behaviour in such contexts.
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'If I had a hedge fund, I would cure diabetes': endogenous mechanisms for creating public goods. [PDF]
Liechty J, Wuyts S.
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States, models and information: A reconsideration of Ellsberg's paradox
We show that a general process of decision making involves uncertainty about two different sets: the domain of the acts and another set, which we call the set of models for the decision maker. We study the effect of different information structures on the set of models, and prove the existence of a dichotomy: either the decision maker's ranking of the ...
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Gender differences in "optimistic" information processing in uncertain decisions. [PDF]
Karmarkar UR.
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Are Probabilities Used in Markets? [PDF]
Working in a complete-markets setting, a property of asset demands in identified that is inconsistent with the investor's preference being based on probabilities.
Epstein, L.G.
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On the effect of uncertainty on personal vaccination decisions. [PDF]
Courbage C, Peter R.
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A Contextual Risk Model for the Ellsberg Paradox
The Allais and Ellsberg paradoxes show that the expected utility hypothesis and Savage's Sure-Thing Principle are violated in real life decisions. The popular explanation in terms of 'ambiguity aversion' is not completely accepted.
Sandro Sozzo, Diederik Aerts
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