Belief elicitation and behavioral incentive compatibility

D Danz, L Vesterlund, AJ Wilson - American Economic Review, 2022 - aeaweb.org
Subjective beliefs are crucial for economic inference, yet behavior can challenge the
elicitation. We propose that belief elicitation should be incentive compatible not only …

Experimental methods: Eliciting beliefs

G Charness, U Gneezy, V Rasocha - Journal of Economic Behavior & …, 2021 - Elsevier
Expectations are a critical factor in determining actions in a great variety of economic
interactions. Hence, being able to measure beliefs is important in many economic …

The binarized scoring rule

T Hossain, R Okui - Review of Economic Studies, 2013 - academic.oup.com
We introduce a simple method for constructing a scoring rule to elicit an agent's belief about
a random variable that is incentive compatible irrespective of her risk-preference. The agent …

A penny for your thoughts: A survey of methods for eliciting beliefs

KH Schlag, J Tremewan, JJ Van der Weele - Experimental Economics, 2015 - Springer
Incentivized methods for eliciting subjective probabilities in economic experiments present
the subject with risky choices that encourage truthful reporting. We discuss the most …

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 …

Belief elicitation: A horse race among truth serums

ST Trautmann, G van de Kuilen - The Economic Journal, 2015 - academic.oup.com
We pit non‐incentivised introspection against five revealed preference mechanisms ('truth
serums') in the elicitation of beliefs in a simple two‐player game. We measure the additivity …

The control premium: A preference for payoff autonomy

D Owens, Z Grossman, R Fackler - American Economic Journal …, 2014 - aeaweb.org
We document individuals' willingness to pay to control their own payoff. Experiment
participants choose whether to bet on themselves or on a partner answering a quiz question …

Eliciting beliefs: Proper scoring rules, incentives, stakes and hedging

O Armantier, N Treich - European Economic Review, 2013 - Elsevier
Proper Scoring Rules (PSRs) are popular incentivized mechanisms to elicit an agent's
beliefs. This paper combines theory and experiment to characterize how PSRs bias reported …

Estimating subjective probabilities

S Andersen, J Fountain, GW Harrison… - Journal of Risk and …, 2014 - Springer
Subjective probabilities play a central role in many economic decisions and act as an
immediate confound of inferences about behavior, unless controlled for. Several procedures …

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 …