Arbeitspapier
Noise and bias in eliciting preferences
In the context of eliciting preferences for decision making under risk, we ask the question: “which might be the ‘best’ method for eliciting such preferences?”. It is well known that different methods differ in terms of the bias in the elicitation; it is rather less well-known that different methods differ in terms of their noisiness. The optimal trade-off depends upon the relative magnitudes of these two effects. We examine four different elicitation mechanisms (pairwise choice, willingness-to-pay, willingness-to-accept, and certainty equivalents) and estimate both effects. Our results suggest that economists might be better advised to use what appears to be a relatively inefficient elicitation technique (i.e. pairwise choice) in order to avoid the bias in better-known and more widely-used techniques.
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: Discussion papers in economics ; No. 2007,04
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
- Thema
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Entscheidung bei Risiko
Experiment
Modell-Spezifikation
Statistischer Fehler
Präferenztheorie
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Hey, John Denis
Morone, Andrea
Schmidt, Ulrich
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
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University of York, Department of Economics and Related Studies
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York
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2007
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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10.03.2025, 11:41 MEZ
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Hey, John Denis
- Morone, Andrea
- Schmidt, Ulrich
- University of York, Department of Economics and Related Studies
Entstanden
- 2007