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    Quasi-Option Value Under Ambiguity

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    Rea! investments involving irreversibility and ambiguity embed a positive quasi-option value under ambiguity (q.o.v.a.), which modifies the evaluation ofan investment decision involving depletion ofnatural resources by increasing the value of delaying. Q.o.v.a. depends on the specific decision-maker attitude towards ambiguity, expressed by a capacity on the state space. An empirica! measure of q.o. v .a. is pointed out. Exploiting the properties of a capacity and its conjugate, the relationship has been established between the upper and lower Choquet integrai with respect to a subadditive capacity and the bid and ask price ofthe underlying asset (output) ofthe investment decision. The empirica! measure of q.o.v.a. is defined as the upper bound ofthe opportunity value. As an example, q.o.v.a. is applied to evaluate an off-shore petroleum lease under ambiguity. Citation

    Cost efficiency of Italian investment firms

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    This paper estimates cost eficiency of italian investment firms during the period 1998-2992. following the stochasticfrontier function approach. Results indicate a significative inefficiency

    Ambiguity in citizens-politicians interactions

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    In the paper a game between private and public individuals is set in order to study under which conditions the former would like to limit ex-ante the choices of the latter. Ambiguity, as distinguished from risk, is explicitly introduced by means of capacities and Choquet Expected Utility. It is shown that constitutional constraints are necessary to prevent private individuals from being exploited by public individuals whenever citizens feel a too high level of ambiguity

    Choices Under Risk and Ambiguity with Familiar and Unfamiliar Outcomes

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    This paper considers a decision-making process under ambiguity in which the decision-maker is supposed to split outcomes between familiar and unfamiliar ones. She is assumed to behave differently with respect to unfamiliar gains, unfamiliar losses and customary (familiar) outcomes. In particular, she is supposed to be pessimistic on gains, optimistic on losses and ambiguity neutral on the familiar outcomes. A generalization of the usual Choquet Integral is formalized when the decision maker holds capacities and probabilities. A characterization of the decision-maker’s behavior is provided for a specific subset of capacities, in which it is shown that the decision-maker underestimates the unfamiliar outcomes while is linear in probabilities on customary ones

    A Non-Expected Glance at Markets: Financial Models and Knightian Uncertainty

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    The article shows financial markets under ambiguity and inspires intuition regarding cognitive processes that underlie trade choices
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