Cognitive uncertainty

B Enke, T Graeber - The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2023 - academic.oup.com
This article documents the economic relevance of measuring cognitive uncertainty: people's
subjective uncertainty over their ex ante utility-maximizing decision. In a series of …

Ambiguity aversion: bibliometric analysis and literature review of the last 60 years

C Bühren, F Meier, M Pleßner - Management Review Quarterly, 2023 - Springer
We conduct a bibliometric analysis and review the literature of the last six decades on
ambiguity aversion. Comparing trends in theoretical, experimental, and empirical …

Climate urgency: evidence of its effects on decision making in the laboratory and the field

AJS Wilson, B Orlove - Current opinion in environmental sustainability, 2021 - Elsevier
Increasingly, a wide variety of actors describe climate change as urgent. Urgency arises
when the time available for making a decision is short—relative to task complexity and the …

Asset pricing and ambiguity: Empirical evidence

M Brenner, Y Izhakian - Journal of Financial Economics, 2018 - Elsevier
We introduce ambiguity in conjunction with risk to study the relation between risk, ambiguity,
and expected returns. Distinguishing between ambiguity and attitudes toward ambiguity, we …

A survey of decision making and optimization under uncertainty

AJ Keith, DK Ahner - Annals of Operations Research, 2021 - Springer
Recent advances in decision making have incorporated both risk and ambiguity in decision
theory and optimization methods. These methods implement a variety of uncertainty …

Biases in information selection and processing: Survey evidence from the pandemic

E Faia, A Fuster, V Pezone, B Zafar - Review of Economics and …, 2024 - direct.mit.edu
We conduct two survey experiments to study which information people choose to consume
and how it affects their beliefs. In the first experiment, respondents choose between …

Trust as a decision under ambiguity

C Li, U Turmunkh, PP Wakker - Experimental Economics, 2019 - Springer
Decisions to trust in strategic situations involve ambiguity (unknown probabilities). Despite
many theoretical studies on ambiguity in game theory, empirical studies have lagged behind …

Dual‐Self Representations of Ambiguity Preferences

M Chandrasekher, M Frick, R Iijima… - Econometrica, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
We propose a class of multiple‐prior representations of preferences under ambiguity, where
the belief the decision‐maker (DM) uses to evaluate an uncertain prospect is the outcome of …

A theoretical foundation of ambiguity measurement

Y Izhakian - Journal of Economic Theory, 2020 - Elsevier
Ordering alternatives by their degree of ambiguity is crucial in economic and financial
decision-making processes. To quantify the degree of ambiguity, this paper introduces an …

Ambiguity and the tradeoff theory of capital structure

Y Izhakian, D Yermack, JF Zender - Management Science, 2022 - pubsonline.informs.org
We examine the impact of ambiguity, or Knightian uncertainty, on the capital structure
decision, using a static tradeoff theory model in which agents are both ambiguity and risk …