Valuing a Risky Prospect Less than Its Worst Outcome: Uncertainty Effect or Task Ambiguity?

Andreas Ortmann, Sasha Prokosheva, Ondrej Rydval and Ralph Hertwig

CERGE-EI Working Papers from The Center for Economic Research and Graduate Education - Economics Institute, Prague

Abstract: Gneezy, List and Wu [Q. J. Econ. 121 (2006) 1283-1309] document that lotteries are often valued less than the lotteries’ worst outcomes. We show how to undo this result.

Keywords: Risky choice; framing; experiments; task ambiguity; subject confusion. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C81 C91 C93 D83 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2007-07
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