Revisiting Ellsberg's and Machina's paradoxes: a two-stage evaluation model under ambiguity

Y He - Management Science, 2021 - pubsonline.informs.org
In this paper, a two-stage evaluation (TSE) model for decision making under ambiguity is
proposed. Events in state space are classified into risky and ambiguous events, which …

Framing and insurance choices

A Burkovskaya, A Teperski… - Journal of Risk and …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The presentation of objective information should not affect a rational decision‐maker;
however, in practice, it often does. This paper studies the effect of the framing of …

Comparative profitability of product disclosure statements

A Burkovskaya, J Li - Available at SSRN 3532175, 2020 - papers.ssrn.com
In insurance industry, product disclosure statements (PDSs) consist of descriptions of
uncertain contingencies by the insurance plans (eg,“hospital coverage”,“dental coverage” …

Essays in information design

F Innocenti - 2022 - madoc.bib.uni-mannheim.de
A relatively recent strand of economic literature studies the design of information. Classical
economic models analyze optimal decision-making (eg, profit-maximizing firms choosing …

On Machina's paradoxes and limited attention

A Burkovskaya - Economic Theory Bulletin, 2020 - Springer
Limited attention and similarity of some of the states of the world together may nudge an
agent to perceive the “grand world” as a collection of “small worlds”. We use this idea as an …

Comparative Statics of Disclosure Statements

A Burkovskaya, J Li - Management Science, 2024 - pubsonline.informs.org
Financial companies often use disclosure statements (DSs) to categorize uncertain
contingencies into different sections (eg, a health insurance plan includes sections such as …

[PDF][PDF] State Aggregation with α-MEU

A Burkovskaya - 2018 - aburkovskaya.com
This paper studies how ambiguity affects identification of the state aggregation model–a
model with an agent that combines several states into an event in order to simplify decision …