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| Type | Working Paper |
| Scope | Discipline-based scholarship |
| Title | Range Effects and Lottery Pricing |
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| Institution | University of Zurich |
| Series Name | Working paper series / Institute for Empirical Research in Economics |
| Number | No. 323 |
| ISSN | 1424-0459 |
| Date | 2008 |
| Abstract Text | A standard method to elicit certainty equivalents is the Becker-DeGroot-Marschak (BDM) procedure. We compare the standard BDM procedure and a BDM procedure with a restricted range of minimum selling prices that an individual can state. We find that elicited prices are systematically affected by the range of feasible minimum selling prices. Expected utility theory cannot explain these results. Non-expected utility theories can only explain the results if subjects consider compound lotteries generated by the BDM procedure. We present an alternative explanation where subjectsnsequentially compare the lottery to monetary amounts in order to determine theirnminimum selling price. The model offers a formal explanation for range effects and for the underweighting of small and the overweighting of large probabilities. |
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