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Econometrica Vol. 75 No. 2 2007

Ellsberg Revisited: An Experimental Study

Yoram Halevy

University of British Columbia

Abstract

An extension to Ellsberg's experiment demonstrates that attitudes to ambiguity and compound objective lotteries are tightly associated. The sample is decomposed into three main groups: subjective expected utility subjects, who reduce compound objective lotteries and are ambiguity neutral, and two groups that exhibit different forms of association between preferences over compound lotteries and ambiguity, corresponding to alternative theoretical models that account for ambiguity averse or seeking behavior. Copyright The Econometric Society 2007.

DOI
10.1111/j.1468-0262.2006.00755.x
Volume
75
Issue
2
Pages
503-536
Language
en
Sources
bibtex:phds-export.bib crossref openalex

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