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Non-Allais Paradox and Context-Dependent Risk Attitudes

Non-Allais Paradox and Context-Dependent Risk Attitudes

We provide and axiomatize a representation of preferences over lotteries that generalizes the expected utility model. Our representation is consistent with the violations of the independence axiom that we observe in the laboratory experiment that we conduct. The violations differ from the Allais Paradox in that they are incompatible with …