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Posterior Separable Cost of Information

The American Economic Review, 2022
We provide testable conditions under which the cost of acquiring information is given by the expected reduction of a measure of uncertainty (e.g., entropy).
Tommaso Denti
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Decisions under Risk Are Decisions under Complexity

The American Economic Review
We provide evidence that classic lottery anomalies like probability weighting and loss aversion are not special phenomena of risk. They also arise (and often with equal strength) when subjects evaluate deterministic, positive monetary payments that have ...
Ryan Oprea
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Optimal Security Design for Risk-Averse Investors

The American Economic Review
We use the tools of mechanism design combined with the theory of risk measures to analyze how a cash-constrained owner of an asset with known, stochastic returns raises capital from a population of investors who differ in their risk aversion and budget ...
Alex Gershkov   +3 more
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Hedging When Applying: Simultaneous Search with Correlation

The American Economic Review
Applicants to schools, colleges, and jobs hedge by applying to a broad range of options, including reaches, matches, and safeties. We develop a simultaneous-search framework that rationalizes this practice.
S. N. Ali, Ran I. Shorrer
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Linking Social and Personal Preferences: Theory and Experiment

Journal of Political Economy
The goal of this paper is to link attitude toward risk over personal consumption with attitude toward risk over social consumptions. Because many everyday choices involve risk, these attitudes enter virtually every realm of individual decision-making. We
W. Zame   +4 more
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The Effect of Fuel Hedging in the Airline Industry on Returns, Volatility, and on the Return-to-risk Relationship Analysis

Energy Journal
This paper begins with an investigation on the relation between airline fuel hedging and volatility and builds on this idea to consider its effect on the risk and return relationship.
Jason P. Berkowitz   +2 more
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Risk Preferences and Field Behavior: The Relevance of Higher-Order Risk Preferences

The American Economic Review
Using new methods, we measure the intensities of higher-order risk preferences (prudence and temperance) in an incentivized experiment with 658 adolescents.
Sebastian O. Schneider, Matthias Sutter
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Distinguishing Common Ratio Preferences from Common Ratio Effects Using Paired Valuation Tasks

The American Economic Review
Without strong assumptions about how noise manifests in choices, we can infer little from existing empirical observations of the common ratio effect (CRE) about whether there exists an underlying common ratio preference (CRP).
Christina McGranaghan   +4 more
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L’autoprotection influence-t-elle les choix d’assurance des individus ? Une étude expérimentale

Revue économique
À l’aide d’une expérimentation en laboratoire, cette étude compare les choix individuels en matière d’assurance, en fonction de la présence, ou non, d’une option d’autoprotection permettant de diminuer la probabilité de perte.
Morgane Plantier   +2 more
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Economic Policy Uncertainty and Stock Returns in China: The Role of Regulatory Short-selling Constraints

Journal of Emerging Market Finance
We examine the association between economic policy uncertainty (EPU) and expected stock returns and how short-selling regulations in China moderate this relationship.
Binsheng Qian, Sunil Poshakwale
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