Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/30270
Year of Publication: 
2010
Series/Report no.: 
Kiel Working Paper No. 1614
Publisher: 
Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW), Kiel
Abstract: 
This paper presents an experimental test of several independence conditions implied by expected utility and alternative models. We perform a repeated choice experiment and fit an error model that allows us to discriminate between true violations of independence and those that can be attributed to errors. In order to investigate the role of event splitting effects, we present each choice problem not only in coalesced form (as in most previous studies) but also in split form. It turns out previously reported violations of independence and splitting effects remain significant even when controlling for errors. Splitting effects have a substantial influence on the tests of independence conditions. When choices are presented in canonical split form, in which probabilities on corresponding probability-consequence ranked branches are equal, violations of the independence conditions we tested become either reversed, insignificant or unsystematic.
Subjects: 
Independence axiom
splitting effects
coalescing
errors
experiment
JEL: 
C91
D81
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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