Decision theory under ambiguity

J Etner, M Jeleva, JM Tallon - Journal of Economic Surveys, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
We review recent advances in the field of decision making under uncertainty or ambiguity.
We start with a presentation of the general approach to a decision problem under …

Ambiguity in asset pricing and portfolio choice: A review of the literature

M Guidolin, F Rinaldi - Theory and Decision, 2013 - Springer
We survey the literature that has explored the implications of decision-making under
ambiguity for financial market outcomes, such as portfolio choice and equilibrium asset …

Ambiguity and the historical equity premium

F Collard, S Mukerji, K Sheppard… - Quantitative …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
This paper assesses the quantitative impact of ambiguity on historically observed financial
asset returns and growth rates. The single agent, in a dynamic exchange economy, treats …

Unknown unknowns: Uncertainty about risk and stock returns

G Baltussen, S Van Bekkum… - Journal of Financial and …, 2018 - cambridge.org
Stocks with high uncertainty about risk, as measured by the volatility of expected volatility
(vol-of-vol), robustly underperform stocks with low uncertainty about risk by 8% per year …

Partial ambiguity

SH Chew, B Miao, S Zhong - Econometrica, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
We extend Ellsberg's two‐urn paradox and propose three symmetric forms of partial
ambiguity by limiting the possible compositions in a deck of 100 red and black cards in three …

Does uncertainty cause inertia in decision making? An experimental study of the role of regret aversion and indecisiveness

SI Sautua - Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2017 - Elsevier
Previous research has shown that individual decision making is often characterized by
inertia—that is, a tendency for decision makers to choose options that maintain the status …

Treatment decisions under ambiguity

L Berger, H Bleichrodt, L Eeckhoudt - Journal of health economics, 2013 - Elsevier
Many health risks are ambiguous in the sense that reliable and credible information about
these risks is unavailable. In health economics, ambiguity is usually handled through …

Dynamic asset allocation with ambiguous return predictability

H Chen, N Ju, J Miao - Review of Economic Dynamics, 2014 - Elsevier
We study an investor's optimal consumption and portfolio choice problem when he is
confronted with two possibly misspecified submodels of stock returns: one with IID returns …

Intertemporal substitution and recursive smooth ambiguity preferences

T Hayashi, J Miao - Theoretical Economics, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
In this paper, we establish an axiomatically founded generalized recursive smooth ambiguity
model that allows for a separation among intertemporal substitution, risk aversion, and …

Data-driven robust mean-CVaR portfolio selection under distribution ambiguity

Z Kang, X Li, Z Li, S Zhu - Quantitative Finance, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
In this paper, we present a computationally tractable optimization method for a robust mean-
CVaR portfolio selection model under the condition of distribution ambiguity. We develop an …