Binmore, Ken, Stewart, Lisa and Voorhoeve, Alex 
ORCID: 0000-0003-3240-3835
(2012)
How much ambiguity aversion?: finding indifferences between Ellsberg's risky and ambiguous bets.
Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 45 (3).
pp. 215-238.
ISSN 0895-5646
Abstract
Experimental results on the Ellsberg paradox typically reveal behavior that is commonly interpreted as ambiguity aversion. The experiments reported in the current paper find the objective probabilities for drawing a red ball that make subjects indifferent between various risky and uncertain Ellsberg bets. They allow us to examine the predictive power of alternative principles of choice under uncertainty, including the objective maximin and Hurwicz criteria, the sure-thing principle, and the principle of insufficient reason. Contrary to our expectations, the principle of insufficient reason performed substantially better than rival theories in our experiment, with ambiguity aversion appearing only as a secondary phenomenon.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Official URL: | http://www.springer.com/economics/economic+theory/... |
| Additional Information: | © 2012 Springer Science + Business Media New York |
| Divisions: | Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method |
| Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > B Philosophy (General) |
| Date Deposited: | 11 Sep 2012 15:43 |
| Last Modified: | 01 Nov 2024 05:22 |
| URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/45808 |
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