Updating Subjective Risks in the Presence of Conflicting Information: An Application to Climate Change

Trudy Cameron ()

Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 2005, vol. 30, issue 1, 63-97

Abstract: Willingness to support public programs for risk management often depends on individual subjective risk perceptions in the face of uncertain science. As part of a larger study concerning climate change, we explore individual updated subjective risks as a function of individual priors, the nature of external information, and individual attributes. We examine several rival hypotheses about how subjective risks change in the face of new information (Bayesian updating, alarmist learning, and ambiguity aversion). The source and nature of external information, as well as its collective ambiguity, can have varying effects across the population, in terms of both expectations and uncertainty. Copyright Springer Science + Business Media, Inc. 2005

Keywords: risk elicitation; subjective probability; prior/posterior distributions; ambiguity aversion; Bayesian updating; alarmist learning (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2005
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