We administer the Allais paradox questions to both a representative sample of the Dutch population and to student subjects. Three treatments are implemented: one with the original high hypothetical payoffs, one with low hypothetical payoffs and a third with low real payoffs. Our key findings are: (i) violations in the non-lab sample are systematic and a large bulk of violations is likely to ste...

Descriptive theories of decision making are constrained by the need to explain the following behavioral phenomena: risk aversion, gambling, purchases of insurance, investment, the paradoxes of Allais and Ellsberg, intransitivity of preference, irregularities of choice, preference reversals, risk judgments, violations of branch independence, the difference between buying and selling prices, viol...

There have been many tests of the descriptive validity of the axioms of expected utility theory (EU) using money outcomes. Such tests are relatively uncommon with respect to health outcomes. This is unfortunate, because the standard gamble considered by many health economists to be the gold standard for cardinal health state value assessment is implied from the axioms of EU. In this paper, the ...

The classical expected utility model of decision under risk (von NeumannMorgenstern, 1944) has been criticized from an experimental point of view (Allais’ paradox) as well as for its restrictive lack of explanatory power. The RankDependent Expected Utility model (RDU) model (Quiggin, 1982) attempts to answer some of these criticisms. The decision maker is characterized by two functions: a utili...

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Abstract Langton’s (1998) and Allais’ (2015) metaphysical interpretations of Kant’s idealism have given special relevance to analysis the inner/outer dichotomy in Amphiboly Concepts Reflection, for they agree that this is key correctly grasping distinction between appearances things themselves. In article I argue accounts major limitations, therefore text should not be read way propose. order s...