Preference reversal

C Seidl - Journal of Economic Surveys, 2002 - Wiley Online Library
Preference reversal concerns a systematic divergence between prices of lotteries and
subjects' expressed preferences for playing the respective lotteries. This article surveys the …

Ellsberg revisited: An experimental study

Y Halevy - Econometrica, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
An extension to Ellsberg's experiment demonstrates that attitudes to ambiguity and
compound objective lotteries are tightly associated. The sample is decomposed into three …

Eliciting and utilizing willingness to pay: Evidence from field trials in Northern Ghana

J Berry, G Fischer, R Guiteras - Journal of Political Economy, 2020 - journals.uchicago.edu
We use the Becker-DeGroot-Marschak (BDM) mechanism to estimate willingness to pay
(WTP) for and heterogeneous impacts of clean water technology through a field experiment …

Revealing consumers' willingness-to-pay: A comparison of the BDM mechanism and the Vickrey auction

C Noussair, S Robin, B Ruffieux - Journal of economic psychology, 2004 - Elsevier
We compare the capability of the Becker–DeGroot–Marschak (BDM) mechanism and the
Vickrey auction to reveal willingness-to-pay information for a sample of French consumers …

Selective trials: A principal-agent approach to randomized controlled experiments

S Chassang, G Padró i Miquel… - American Economic …, 2012 - aeaweb.org
We study the design of randomized controlled experiments when outcomes are significantly
affected by experimental subjects' unobserved effort expenditure. While standard …

Reasons for rank-dependent utility evaluation

E Weber, B Kirsner - Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 1997 - Springer
Three reasons for why people may evaluate utility in a rank-dependent fashion have been
suggested:(a) rank-dependent weighting is a function of perceptual biases and thus not …

Payoff dominance vs. cognitive transparency in decision making

JR Irwin, GH McClelland, M McKee… - Economic …, 1998 - Wiley Online Library
This paper reports on three laboratory experiments designed to investigate the roles of
decision costs and rewards on the accuracy of economic decisions. The experimental …

Learning from unrealized versus realized prices

MK Ngangoué, G Weizsäcker - American Economic Journal …, 2021 - aeaweb.org
Our experiments investigate the extent to which traders learn from the price, differentiating
between situations where orders are submitted before versus after the price has realized. In …

Is choice the correct primitive? On using certainty equivalents and reference levels to predict choices among gambles

RD Luce, BA Mellers, SJ Chang - Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 1993 - Springer
Choice is viewed as a derived, not a primitive, concept. Individual gambles are assigned
subjective certainty equivalents (CE 1); the choice set X has an associated reference level …

Comparing decisions under compound risk and ambiguity: The importance of cognitive skills

S Prokosheva - Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 2016 - Elsevier
I investigate the relationship between attitudes towards ambiguity and the ability to reduce
compound risks. The evidence from an experiment on adolescents shows that patterns …