Assessing risk aversion from the investor's point of view

A Díaz, C Esparcia - Frontiers in psychology, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Throughout the financial literature, there is a great deal of debate about the nature of
investors' risk preferences. In an ever-changing world, the main schools of knowledge …

[HTML][HTML] Charity hazard and the flood insurance protection gap: An EU scale assessment under climate change

M Tesselaar, WJW Botzen, PJ Robinson… - Ecological …, 2022 - Elsevier
The flood insurance protection gap, the level of uninsured flood risk, is a problem faced by
many European countries and is expected to increase due to climate change. In some …

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 …

Wealth and insurance choices: Evidence from US households

MJ Gropper, CM Kuhnen - 2021 - nber.org
Theoretically, wealthier people should buy less insurance, and should self-insure through
saving instead, as insurance entails monitoring costs. Here, we use administrative data for …

[HTML][HTML] A test of (weak) certainty independence

C König-Kersting, C Kops, ST Trautmann - Journal of Economic Theory, 2023 - Elsevier
We provide a test of the axioms of certainty and weak certainty independence in models of
decision-making under subjective uncertainty. We show that it is through these two …

A Markov regime switching model for asset pricing and ambiguity measurement of stock market

J Wang, MC Zhou, X Guo, L Qi, X Wang - Neurocomputing, 2021 - Elsevier
Based on the theoretical framework of expected utility with uncertain probabilities, this paper
uses actual prices of CSI300 and Hang Seng index to empirically measure ambiguity …

Experimental elicitation of ambiguity attitude using the random incentive system

A Baillon, Y Halevy, C Li - Experimental Economics, 2022 - Springer
We demonstrate how the standard usage of the random incentive system in ambiguity
experiments eliciting certainty and probability equivalents might not be incentive compatible …

Foundations of ambiguity models under symmetry: α-MEU and smooth ambiguity

P Klibanoff, S Mukerji, K Seo, L Stanca - Journal of Economic Theory, 2022 - Elsevier
The α-MEU model and the smooth ambiguity model are two popular models in decision
making under ambiguity. However, the axiomatic foundations of these two models are not …

[HTML][HTML] Testing negative value of information and ambiguity aversion

C Kops, I Pasichnichenko - Journal of Economic Theory, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract The standard Subjective Expected Utility model of decision-making implies that
information can never have a negative value ex-ante. Many ambiguity theories have since …

Ambiguity aversion and wealth effects

S Cerreia-Vioglio, F Maccheroni, M Marinacci - Journal of Economic Theory, 2022 - Elsevier
We study how changes in wealth affect ambiguity attitudes. We define a decision maker as
decreasing (resp., increasing) absolute ambiguity averse if he becomes less (resp., more) …