10.17889/E108496V1
Placido, Laetitia
Wakker, Peter P.
Baillon, Aurélien
Abdellaoui, Mohammed
Replication data for: The Rich Domain of Uncertainty: Source Functions and Their Experimental Implementation
ICPSR Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research
2010
10.1257/aer.101.2.695
10.1257/aer.101.2.695
1
We often deal with uncertain events for which no probabilities are known. Several normative models have been proposed. Descriptive studies have usually been qualitative, or they estimated ambiguity aversion through one single number. This paper introduces the source method, a tractable method for quantitatively analyzing uncertainty empirically. The theoretical key is the distinction between different sources of uncertainty, within which subjective (choice-based) probabilities can still be defined. Source functions convert those subjective probabilities into willingness to bet. We apply our method in an experiment, where we do not commit to particular ambiguity attitudes
but let the data speak. (JEL D81)