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Pietro Ortoleva
Researcher at Princeton University
Publications - 53
Citations - 1684
Pietro Ortoleva is an academic researcher from Princeton University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Ambiguity aversion & Expected utility hypothesis. The author has an hindex of 17, co-authored 48 publications receiving 1305 citations. Previous affiliations of Pietro Ortoleva include Columbia University & California Institute of Technology.
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Overconfidence in Political Behavior
Pietro Ortoleva,Erik Snowberg +1 more
TL;DR: This paper studied the role of overconfidence in political behavior and found that overconfidence leads to increased voter turnout, increased voter extremeness, and stronger partisan identification in a large sample of over 3,000 adults.
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Stochastic Choice and Preferences for Randomization
Marina Agranov,Pietro Ortoleva +1 more
TL;DR: This article conducted an experiment in which subjects face the same questions repeated multiple times, with repetitions of two types: (1) following the literature, the repetitions are distant from each other; (2) in a novel treatment, the repetition are in a row, and subjects are told that the questions will be repeated.
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Revealed (P)Reference Theory
TL;DR: In this paper, a revealed preference theory of reference-dependent choice behavior is proposed to obtain, endogenously, the existence of reference alternatives as well as the structure of choice behavior conditional on those alternatives.
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Incomplete preferences under uncertainty: Indecisiveness in beliefs versus tastes
TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigate the classical Anscombe-Aumann model of decision-making under uncertainty without the completeness axiom and distinguish between the dual traits of "indecisiveness in beliefs" and "indifference in tastes".
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Modeling the Change of Paradigm: Non-Bayesian Reactions to Unexpected News †
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors characterize an alternative updating rule that is not subject to these limitations, but at the same time coincides with Bayes' rule for "normal" events.