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Combining Bayesian Beliefs and Willingness to Bet to Analyze Attitudes towards Uncertainty| old_uid | 3418 |
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| title | Combining Bayesian Beliefs and Willingness to Bet to Analyze Attitudes towards Uncertainty |
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| start_date | 2007/11/09 |
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| schedule | 16h15-18h15 |
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| online | no |
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| details | Travail en collaboration avec Aurélien Baillon & Peter P. Wakker, Erasmus, Pays-Bas |
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| summary | Many deviations from Bayesianism have been found for choices under uncertainty with unknown probabilities ("ambiguity"). General choice-based models and qualitative empirical tests have been provided. This paper introduces an operational procedure for quantitatively measuring attitudes towards uncertainty and ambiguity, allowing for exact predictions. We first identify sources of uncertainty, comprising events generated by a common mechanism and with a uniform degree of ambiguity. For such sources we can define choice-based probabilities. Key in our approach is the introduction of source functions, converting choice-based probabilities into decision weights. Using these source functions, attitudes towards uncertainty and ambiguity can be conveniently analyzed and displayed in tractable graphs. We demonstrate the implementability of our approach in an experiment. The prevailing phenomena comprise both aversion and insensitivity towards ambiguity. |
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| responsibles | Hill, Cozic |
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