A survey of decision making and optimization under uncertainty

AJ Keith, DK Ahner - Annals of Operations Research, 2021 - Springer
Recent advances in decision making have incorporated both risk and ambiguity in decision
theory and optimization methods. These methods implement a variety of uncertainty …

Ambiguity and excuse-driven behavior in charitable giving

T Garcia, S Massoni, MC Villeval - European Economic Review, 2020 - Elsevier
A donation may have ambiguous costs or ambiguous benefits. Behavior in a laboratory
experiment suggests that individuals use this ambiguity strategically as a moral wiggle room …

Ambiguity, managerial ability, and growth options

T Driouchi, M Chen, Z Lyu, DJ Bennett… - British Journal of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
This paper studies the role of ambiguity and managerial ability in firm growth options from
the perspective of behavioural theory. We argue that managerial ability increases both the …

Prior beliefs and ambiguity attitudes in decision from experience

I Aydogan - Management Science, 2021 - pubsonline.informs.org
Prior beliefs and their updating play a crucial role in decisions under uncertainty, and
theories about them have been well established in classical Bayesianism. Yet, they are …

Moderate stability of risk and ambiguity attitudes across quantitative and qualitative decisions

O Dan, CY Xu, R Jia, EK Wertheimer, M Chawla… - Scientific Reports, 2025 - nature.com
Uncertainty lies at the heart of everyday choices, affecting both decisions about precise
quantities and those with less tangible, more qualitative, outcomes. Previous literature on …

Ambiguity aversion and the degree of ambiguity

R Klingebiel, F Zhu - Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 2023 - Springer
We empirically show that sample information not only moderates prospects' outcome
ambiguity but also decision makers' revealed aversion of them. Since most natural prospects …

[HTML][HTML] The Ambiguity Box: A new tool to generate ambiguity in the lab

A Morone, R Caferra - Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract The Ambiguity Box is a software tool that visualizes uncertainty in laboratory
experiments. It is a dynamic frame composed of squares that randomly change colours …

Beyond Risk: A Measure of Distribution Uncertainty

T Lu, L Zhang, X Zhang, Z Zhao - Information Systems …, 2024 - pubsonline.informs.org
Uncertainty, particularly distribution uncertainty (aka ambiguity), holds significant relevance
in both academic research and practical applications. Much of the existing research …

The distribution of ambiguity attitudes

People face ambiguity in many domains. How likely is it that the return on a portfolio of
stocks is larger than some threshold for a certain horizon? What are the odds that an offered …

Strategic Expert Committees and the Markets That Assess Them: A Laboratory Experiment

S Renes, B Visser - Management Science, 2024 - pubsonline.informs.org
Committees of experts are widely used to make decisions. We experimentally investigate the
relationship between decision making in committees and the assessment of the ability of …