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Pricing risk and ambiguity: The effect of perspective taking

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  • Stefan T. Trautmann
  • Ulrich Schmidt

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There is a large literature showing that willingness-to-accept (WTA) is usually much higher than willingness-to-pay (WTP) in empirical studies although they should be roughly equal according to traditional economic theory. A second stream of literature shows that people are typically ambiguity averse, i.e. they prefer lotteries with known probabilities over lotteries with unknown ones. Our study combines both streams of literature and analyzes whether there is an interaction between the WTP-WTA disparity and ambiguity aversion

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Paper provided by Kiel Institute for the World Economy in its series Kiel Working Papers with number 1727.

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Length: 14 pages
Date of creation: Aug 2011
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Handle: RePEc:kie:kieliw:1727

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Keywords: WTP-WTA disparity; ambiguity aversion; comparative ignorance;

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  1. Richard G. Frank & Richard J. Zeckhauser, 2007. "Custom Made Versus Ready to Wear Treatments; Behavioral Propensities in Physician's Choices," NBER Working Papers 13445, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  2. Mercè Roca & Robin Hogarth & A. John Maule, 2005. "Ambiguity seeking as a result of the status quo bias," Economics Working Papers 882, Department of Economics and Business, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, revised Jun 2006.
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  4. Stefan T. Trautmann & Ferdinand M. Vieider & Peter P. Wakker, 2011. "Preference Reversals for Ambiguity Aversion," Management Science, INFORMS, vol. 57(7), pages 1320-1333, July.
  5. Schmidt, Ulrich & Starmer, Chris & Sugden, Robert, 2008. "Third-generation prospect theory," Open Access publications from Kiel Institute for the World Economy info:hdl:10419/28932, Kiel Institute for the World Economy.
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