Insurance demand under ambiguity and conflict for extreme risks: Evidence from a large representative survey
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Keywords
Ambiguity; imprecision; conflict; decision making; extreme risk; insurance demand; willingness to pay;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- C93 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Design of Experiments - - - Field Experiments
- 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
- Q54 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics - - - Climate; Natural Disasters and their Management; Global Warming
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-CBE-2012-05-02 (Cognitive and Behavioural Economics)
- NEP-IAS-2012-05-02 (Insurance Economics)
- NEP-UPT-2012-05-02 (Utility Models and Prospect Theory)
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