Pietro Ortoleva

Princeton University - Department of Economics

Professor of Economics and Public Affairs

Princeton, NJ 08544-1021

United States

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Willingness-to-Pay and Willingness-to-Accept Are Probably Less Correlated Than You Think

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Willingness-to-Pay and Willingness-to-Accept Are Probably Less Correlated Than You Think

CESifo Working Paper Series No. 6492
Number of pages: 63 Posted: 20 Jun 2017
Jonathan Chapman, Pietro Ortoleva, Erik Snowberg, Colin Camerer, Mark Dean and Mark Dean
New York University (NYU) - New York University, Abu Dhabi, Princeton University - Department of Economics, California Institute of Technology (Caltech) - Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology (Caltech) - Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences and Brown University - Department of EconomicsNew York University (NYU) - Department of Economics
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Willingness to Pay, Willingness to Accept, Endowment Effect, Loss Aversion, Risk Aversion

Willingness to Pay and Willingness to Accept are Probably Less Correlated than You Think

NBER Working Paper No. w23954
Number of pages: 66 Posted: 23 Oct 2017 Last Revised: 15 Jun 2023
Jonathan Chapman, Mark Dean, Pietro Ortoleva, Erik Snowberg and Colin Camerer
New York University (NYU) - New York University, Abu Dhabi, Columbia University, Princeton University - Department of Economics, California Institute of Technology (Caltech) - Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences and California Institute of Technology (Caltech) - Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences
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Is it All Connected? A Testing Ground for Unified Theories of Behavioral Economics Phenomena

Number of pages: 50 Posted: 14 Aug 2015
Mark Dean, Mark Dean and Pietro Ortoleva
Brown University - Department of EconomicsNew York University (NYU) - Department of Economics and Princeton University - Department of Economics
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isk Aversion, Present Bias, Ambiguity Aversion, Allais Paradox, En- dowment Effect, Loss Aversion, Trust Game

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Econographics

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Econographics

CESifo Working Paper No. 7202
Number of pages: 64 Posted: 31 Oct 2018
Jonathan Chapman, Mark Dean, Pietro Ortoleva, Erik Snowberg and Colin Camerer
New York University (NYU) - New York University, Abu Dhabi, Columbia University, Princeton University - Department of Economics, California Institute of Technology (Caltech) - Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences and California Institute of Technology (Caltech) - Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences
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econographics, reciprocity, altruism, trust, costly third-party punishment, inequality aversion, risk aversion, common-ratio effect, endowment effect, ambiguity aversion, compound lottery aversion, discounting, overconfidence, cognitive ability, demographics

Econographics

NBER Working Paper No. w24931
Number of pages: 63 Posted: 28 Aug 2018 Last Revised: 06 Mar 2023
Jonathan Chapman, Mark Dean, Pietro Ortoleva, Erik Snowberg and Colin Camerer
New York University (NYU) - New York University, Abu Dhabi, Columbia University, Princeton University - Department of Economics, California Institute of Technology (Caltech) - Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences and California Institute of Technology (Caltech) - Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences
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Stochastic Impatience and the Separation of Time and Risk Preferences

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Stochastic Impatience and the Separation of Time and Risk Preferences

PIER Working Paper No. 18-020, Jacobs Levy Equity Management Center for Quantitative Financial Research Paper
Number of pages: 40 Posted: 20 Sep 2018 Last Revised: 12 Aug 2021
David Dillenberger, Daniel Gottlieb and Pietro Ortoleva
University of Pennsylvania - Department of Economics, Washington University in St. Louis and Princeton University - Department of Economics
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Stochastic Impatience, Epstein and Zin preferences, Separation of Risk and Time preferences, Risk Sensitive Preferences, Non-Expected Utility

Stochastic Impatience and the Separation of Time and Risk Preferences

PIER Working Paper No. 20-026
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 08 Jul 2020
David Dillenberger, Daniel Gottlieb and Pietro Ortoleva
University of Pennsylvania - Department of Economics, London School of Economics and Princeton University - Department of Economics
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Stochastic Impatience, Epstein-Zin preferences, Separation of Time and Risk preferences, Risk Sensitive preferences, Non-Expected Utility

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Cautious Expected Utility and the Certainty Effect

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Cautious Expected Utility and the Certainty Effect

PIER Working Paper No. 14-005, Columbia Business School Research Paper No. 14-20, Jacobs Levy Equity Management Center for Quantitative Financial Research Paper
Number of pages: 48 Posted: 18 Feb 2014
Simone Cerreia-Vioglio, David Dillenberger and Pietro Ortoleva
Bocconi University - Department of Decision Sciences, University of Pennsylvania - Department of Economics and Princeton University - Department of Economics
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Preferences under risk, Allais paradox, Negative Certainty Independence, Incomplete preferences, Cautious Completion, Multi-Utility representation

Cautious Expected Utility and the Certainty Effect

PIER Working Paper No. 13-037, Columbia Business School Research Paper No. 13-52
Number of pages: 46 Posted: 10 Jul 2013
Simone Cerreia-Vioglio, David Dillenberger and Pietro Ortoleva
Bocconi University - Department of Decision Sciences, University of Pennsylvania - Department of Economics and Princeton University - Department of Economics
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Preferences under risk, Allais paradox, Negative Certainty Independence, Incomplete preferences, Cautious Completion, Multi-Utility representation

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The Behavior of Others as a Reference Point

Columbia Business School Research Paper No. 13-55
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 11 Jul 2013
Francesco Bogliacino and Pietro Ortoleva
National University of Colombia - Department of Economics and Princeton University - Department of Economics
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Prospect Theory, Reference-dependence, Aspirations

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Allais, Ellsberg, and Preferences for Hedging

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Allais, Ellsberg, and Preferences for Hedging

Brown Economics Working Paper
Number of pages: 44 Posted: 22 Mar 2012
Mark Dean, Mark Dean and Pietro Ortoleva
Brown University - Department of EconomicsNew York University (NYU) - Department of Economics and Princeton University - Department of Economics
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Ambiguity Aversion, Allais Paradox, Ellsberg Paradox, Hedging, Multiple Priors

Allais, Ellsberg, and Preferences for Hedging

Number of pages: 31 Posted: 14 Aug 2015
Mark Dean, Mark Dean and Pietro Ortoleva
Brown University - Department of EconomicsNew York University (NYU) - Department of Economics and Princeton University - Department of Economics
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Ambiguity Aversion, Allais Paradox, Ellsberg Paradox, Hedging, Multiple Priors, Subjective Mixture, Probability Weighting, Rank Dependent Utility

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Deliberately Stochastic

PIER Working Paper No. 17-013, Columbia Business School Research Paper No. 17-58
Number of pages: 38 Posted: 30 May 2017
Simone Cerreia-Vioglio, David Dillenberger, Pietro Ortoleva and Gil Riella
Bocconi University - Department of Decision Sciences, University of Pennsylvania - Department of Economics, Princeton University - Department of Economics and Getulio Vargas Foundation (FGV)
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Stochastic Choice, Random Utility, Hedging, Cautious Expected Utility, Convex Preferences, Regularity

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Stochastic Choice and Preferences for Randomization

Number of pages: 34 Posted: 16 Aug 2015
Marina Agranov and Pietro Ortoleva
California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and Princeton University - Department of Economics
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Stochastic Choice, Random Utility, Mistakes, Hedging

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Labels as Nudges? An Experimental Study of Car Eco-Labels

Documentos FCE-CID Escuela de Economía No. 69
Number of pages: 134 Posted: 01 Apr 2016
Cristiano Codagnone, Francesco Bogliacino, Giuseppe Alessandro Veltri, Francisco Lupiáñez-Villanueva, Andriy Ivchenko, George Gaskell, Pietro Ortoleva and Francesco Mureddu
Università degli studi di Milano, Dipartimento di Scienze Sociali e Politiche, National University of Colombia - Department of Economics, University of Trento, Open University of Catalunya (UOC) (Open University of Catalonia), Expilab Research S.L., London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE), Princeton University - Department of Economics and Open University of Catalunya (UOC) (Open University of Catalonia)
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eco-label; nudge; willingness to pay; fuel economy; experiments

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Time Lotteries

PIER Working Paper No. 15-026
Number of pages: 38 Posted: 07 Aug 2015 Last Revised: 23 Jan 2018
Patrick DeJarnette, David Dillenberger, Daniel Gottlieb and Pietro Ortoleva
University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania - Department of Economics, Washington University in St. Louis and Princeton University - Department of Economics
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Expected Discounted Utility, Separation of Risk and Time preferences, Time Lotteries, Stochastic Impatience

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The Behavior of Other as a Reference Point

Number of pages: 41 Posted: 02 Sep 2015
Francesco Bogliacino and Pietro Ortoleva
National University of Colombia - Department of Economics and Princeton University - Department of Economics
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Prospect Theory, Reference-dependence, Aspirations

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Time Lotteries and Stochastic Impatience

PIER Working Paper No. 18-021
Number of pages: 39 Posted: 20 Sep 2018
Patrick DeJarnette, David Dillenberger, Daniel Gottlieb and Pietro Ortoleva
University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania - Department of Economics, Washington University in St. Louis and Princeton University - Department of Economics
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Expected Discounted Utility, Separation of Risk and Time preferences, Time Lotteries, Stochastic Impatience

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A Variation on Ellsberg

Brown Economics Working Paper
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 14 Feb 2011
Kfir Eliaz and Pietro Ortoleva
Brown University and Princeton University - Department of Economics
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Ellsberg Paradox, Uncertainty Aversion, Ambiguity Aversion, MaxMin

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Time Lotteries

PIER Working Paper No. 15-026 v.2
Number of pages: 38 Posted: 07 Aug 2015 Last Revised: 21 May 2018
Patrick DeJarnette, David Dillenberger, Daniel Gottlieb and Pietro Ortoleva
University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania - Department of Economics, Washington University in St. Louis and Princeton University - Department of Economics
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Expected Discounted Utility, Separation of Risk and Time preferences, Time Lotteries, Stochastic Impatience

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Overconfidence in Political Behavior

NBER Working Paper No. w19250
Number of pages: 78 Posted: 27 Jul 2013 Last Revised: 06 Feb 2022
Pietro Ortoleva and Erik Snowberg
Princeton University - Department of Economics and California Institute of Technology (Caltech) - Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences
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Willingness to Accept, Willingness to Pay, and Loss Aversion

CESifo Working Paper No. 10200
Number of pages: 83 Posted: 24 Jan 2023
Jonathan Chapman, Mark Dean, Pietro Ortoleva, Erik Snowberg and Colin Camerer
University of Bologna, Columbia University, Princeton University - Department of Economics, University of Utah and California Institute of Technology (Caltech) - Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences
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Willingness To Pay, Willingness to Accept, endowment effect, loss aversion

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Who Cares More? Allocation with Diverse Preference Intensities

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Who Cares More? Allocation with Diverse Preference Intensities

Number of pages: 50 Posted: 27 Aug 2021
Pietro Ortoleva, Evgenii Safonov and Leeat Yariv
Princeton University - Department of Economics, Princeton University, Department of Economics and Princeton University
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Market Design, Mechanism Design, Allocation Problems

Who Cares More? Allocation with Diverse Preference Intensities

NBER Working Paper No. w29208
Number of pages: 51 Posted: 06 Sep 2021 Last Revised: 23 Apr 2023
Pietro Ortoleva, Evgenii Safonov and Leeat Yariv
Princeton University - Department of Economics, Princeton University, Department of Economics and Princeton University
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Who Cares More? Allocation with Diverse Preference Intensities

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP16491
Number of pages: 53 Posted: 22 Sep 2021
Pietro Ortoleva, Evgenii Safonov and Leeat Yariv
Princeton University - Department of Economics, Princeton University, Department of Economics and Princeton University
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Allocation Problems, market design, mechanism design

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An Explicit Representation for Disappointment Aversion and Other Betweenness Preferences

PIER Working Paper No. 18-019
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 19 Sep 2018
Simone Cerreia-Vioglio, David Dillenberger and Pietro Ortoleva
Bocconi University - Department of Decision Sciences, University of Pennsylvania - Department of Economics and Princeton University - Department of Economics
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D80, D81

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Reassessing Qualitative Self-Assessments and Experimental Validation *

Number of pages: 72 Posted: 19 Feb 2025
Jonathan Chapman, Pietro Ortoleva, Erik Snowberg, Leeat Yariv and Colin Camerer
University of Bologna, Princeton University - Department of Economics, University of Utah, Princeton University and California Institute of Technology (Caltech) - Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences
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Self-Assessments, Risk Preferences, Time Preferences, Social Preferences, Preference Elicitation, Experimental Validation, Econographics

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Willingness to Accept, Willingness to Pay, and Loss Aversion

NBER Working Paper No. w30836
Number of pages: 82 Posted: 09 Jan 2023 Last Revised: 14 Apr 2023
Jonathan Chapman, Mark Dean, Pietro Ortoleva, Erik Snowberg and Colin Camerer
New York University (NYU) - New York University, Abu Dhabi, Columbia University, Princeton University - Department of Economics, University of Utah and California Institute of Technology (Caltech) - Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences
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Reassessing Qualitative Self- Assessments and Experimental Validation

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Reassessing Qualitative Self- Assessments and Experimental Validation

CESifo Working Paper No. 11703
Number of pages: 74 Posted: 07 Mar 2025
Jonathan Chapman, Pietro Ortoleva, Erik Snowberg, Leeat Yariv and Colin Camerer
University of Bologna, Princeton University - Department of Economics, University of Utah, Princeton University and California Institute of Technology (Caltech) - Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences
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econographics, self-assessments, risk preferences, time preferences, social preferences, preference elicitation, experimental validation

Reassessing Qualitative Self-Assessments and Experimental Validation

NBER Working Paper No. w33520
Number of pages: 73 Posted: 04 Mar 2025
Jonathan Chapman, Pietro Ortoleva, Erik Snowberg, Leeat Yariv and Colin Camerer
University of Bologna, Princeton University - Department of Economics, University of Utah, Princeton University and California Institute of Technology (Caltech) - Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences
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Competing Models

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP14066
Number of pages: 61 Posted: 23 Oct 2019
José Luis Montiel Olea, Pietro Ortoleva, Mallesh Pai and Andrea Prat
Columbia University, Princeton University - Department of Economics, Rice University - Department of Economics and Columbia University in the City of New York
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