Ambiguity attitudes and surprises: Experimental evidence on communicating new information within a large population sample
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Ambiguity attitude; Belief updating; Expert forecasts; Survey experiment;All these keywords.
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- D81 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Criteria for Decision-Making under Risk and Uncertainty
- D83 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Search; Learning; Information and Knowledge; Communication; Belief; Unawareness
- C93 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Design of Experiments - - - Field Experiments
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