Strategic ambiguity and decision-making: an experimental study

David Kelsey and Sara le Roux

Theory and Decision, 2018, vol. 84, issue 3, No 5, 387-404

Abstract: Abstract We conducted a set of experiments to compare the effect of ambiguity in single-person decisions and games. Our results suggest that ambiguity has a bigger impact in games than in ball and urn problems. We find that ambiguity has the opposite effect in games of strategic substitutes and complements. This confirms a theoretical prediction made by Eichberger and Kelsey (J Econ Theory 106:436–466, 2002). In addition, we note that subjects’ ambiguity attitudes appear to be context dependent: ambiguity loving in single-person decisions and ambiguity averse in games. This is consistent with the findings of Kelsey and le Roux (Theory Decis 79:667–688, 2015).

Keywords: Ambiguity; Choquet expected utility; Strategic complements; Strategic substitutes; Ellsberg urn (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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