Browsing ECO Working Papers by Author "BUTLER, Jeffrey V."

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    Title: The Role of Intuition and Reasoning in Driving Aversion to Risk and Ambiguity  Author(s): BUTLER, Jeffrey V.; GUISO, Luigi; JAPPELLI, Tullio Date: 2011-01-01 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI ECO Abstract: Using information on a large sample of retail investors and experimental data we find that risk aversion and risk ambiguity are correlated: individuals who dislike risk also dislike ambiguity. We show that what links these ...
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    Title: The Right Amount of Trust  Author(s): BUTLER, Jeffrey V.; GIULIANO, Paola; GUISO, Luigi Date: 2009 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI ECO Abstract: A vast literature has investigated the relationship between trust and aggregate economic performance. We investigate the relationship between individual trust and individual economic performance. We find that individual ...