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Luca Rigotti

Department of Economics, University of Pittsburgh
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Individual behavior and group membership

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G Charness, L Rigotti… - 2006 - papers.ssrn.com
Abstract: People who are members of a group and identify with it behave differently from
people who perceive themselves as isolated individuals. This difference depends on two
main factors. First, preferences over outcomes change with the degree of identification ...
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Uncertainty and risk in financial markets

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L Rigotti… - Econometrica, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
This paper considers a general equilibrium model in which the distinction between
uncertainty and risk is formalized by assuming agents have incomplete preferences over
state-contingent consumption bundles, as in Bewley (1986). Without completeness, ...
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Your morals might be your moods

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G Kirchsteiger, L Rigotti… - Journal of Economic Behavior & …, 2006 - Elsevier
We test the effect of mood on behavior in a gift-exchange game. To induce a 'bad mood',
second movers watched a sad movie before playing the game; to induce a 'good mood', they
watched a funny movie. Mood induction was effective: subjects who saw the funny movie ...
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Subjective Beliefs and ex ante Trade

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L Rigotti, C Shannon… - Econometrica, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
We study a definition of subjective beliefs applicable to preferences that allow for the
perception of ambiguity, and provide a characterization of such beliefs in terms of market
behavior. Using this definition, we derive necessary and sufficient conditions for the ...
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The sport league's dilemma: competitive balance versus incentives to win

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F Palomino… - 2000 - papers.ssrn.com
Abstract: We analyze a dynamic model of strategic interaction between a professional sport
league that organizes a tournament, the teams competing to win it, and the broadcasters
paying for the rights to televise it. Teams and broadcasters maximize expected profits, ...
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[PDF] Skill, strategy and passion: An empirical analysis of soccer

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F Palomino, L Rigotti… - … of 8th World Congress of the …, 2000 - arno.uvt.nl
Abstract Sports provide a natural experiment on individual choices in games with high
stakes. We study soccer with a gameMtheoretic model of a match, and then evaluate the
ability of this model to explain actual behavior with data from 2885 matches among ...
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[PDF] Tolerance of ambiguity and entrepreneurial innovation

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L Rigotti, M Ryan… - Duke University Manuscript, 2003 - econ.unito.it
Abstract This paper develops an equilibrium model of entrepreneurial innovation in which
agents differ with respect to their optimism in the face of ambiguity. Individuals may choose
between occupations in “traditional” industries, and those in emerging sectors about ...
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[BOOK] Imprecise beliefs in a principal agent model

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L Rigotti, Center for Economic Research at Amsterdam - 1998 - arno.uvt.nl
Abstract This paper presents a principal-agent model where the agent has multiple, or
imprecise, beliefs. We model this situation formally by assuming the agent's preferences are
incomplete. One can interpret this multiplicity as an agent's limited knowledge of the ...
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[PDF] Your morals are your moods

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G Kirchsteiger, L Rigotti… - 2001 - escholarship.org
Abstract: We test the effect of players' moods on their behavior in a gift-exchange game. In
the first stage of the game, player 1 chooses a transfer to player 2. In the second stage,
player 2 chooses an effort level. Higher effort is more costly for player 2, but it increases ...
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[PDF] Sharing risk and ambiguity

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L Rigotti… - preprint, 2008 - coll.mpg.de
We study the market implications of ambiguity in common models. We show that generic determinacy
is a robust feature in general equilibrium models that allow a distinction between ambiguity and
risk. ... JEL Codes: D0, D5, D8, G1 Keywords: ambiguity, general equilibrium theory, ...
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[PDF] Decisive entrepreneurs and cautious investors

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L Rigotti - h ttp://faculty. fuqua. duke. edu/∼ rigotti/bio/finance. pdf …, 2004 - Citeseer
Abstract Entrepreneurs may undertake investments when returns cannot be precisely
evaluated: they are decisive. Lenders may require high compensation to place funds in
those ventures: they are cautious. We analyze optimal financing contracts between ...
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[PDF] Entrepreneurial innovation

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L Rigotti, M Ryan… - 2001 - escholarship.org
Abstract: This paper presents an equilibrium model in which the process of firm formation
and technology adoption is endogenous. Individuals decide whether to work in an existing
firm for a posted wage, or to establish a new firm. Entrepreneurs hire a single worker and ...
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[CITATION] The sport league's dilemma: Competitive balance and incentives to win

F Palomino… - Woking paper, Tilburg University, 2000
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[PDF] Competitive balance vs incentives to win: a theoretical analysis of revenue sharing

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F Palomino… - … Society World Congress 2000 Contributed Papers, 2000 - Citeseer
Abstract We analyze a dynamic model of strategic interaction between the league
organizing a professional sport, the teams playing the tournament organized by this league,
and broadcasters competing for the rights to televise their matches. Teams and ...
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Who Has Anticipatory Feelings?

B Koszegi, U Berkeley, L Rigotti, T Rosenblat - 2001 - Citeseer
Abstract I consider a general model of decisionmaking where anticipatory feelings enter the
agent's utility function in addition to physical outcomes, and allowforinteractions between
these twopayo# components. I use an equilibrium concept, personal equilibrium, that ...
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[PDF] They are Watching You: Audience Effects in Economic Institutions

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G Charness, L Rigotti… - 2003 - time.dufe.edu.cn
Abstract We study the effect of the mere presence of an audience on the behavior of people
involved in a strategic interaction. In our laboratory experiment, two active participants play
the game and receive payoffs determined by their choices, while inactive participants ...
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[CITATION] Maxmin Expected Utility and Equilibria

L Rigotti… - 2003 - Discussion
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[PDF] They are watching you: Social facilitation in institutions

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G Charness, L Rigotti… - 2003 - escholarship.org
Abstract Social facilitation describes the effect on performance due to the mere presence of
others. Here we study the effect of the mere presence of an audience on the behavior of
people involved in a strategic interaction and on the performance of institutions. In our ...
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[CITATION] Vaithianathan. Entrepreneurial Innovation

L Rigotti… - Economics Working Paper Archive at WUSTL, 2001
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[CITATION] jIndividual Behavior and Group Membership, kAmerican Economic Review, forthcoming

G Charness, L Rigotti… - 2007
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Knightian uncertainty and moral hazard

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G Lopomo, L Rigotti… - Journal of Economic Theory, 2011 - Elsevier
Abstract This paper presents a principal-agent model in which the agent has imprecise
beliefs. We model this situation formally by assuming the agent modifier letter apostrophe s
preferences are incomplete as in [2]. In this setting, incentives must be robust to Knightian ...
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[PDF] Skill, Strategy, and Passion: an Empirical Analysis of Soccer¤

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L Rigotti, A Rustichini - 2000 - homepages.cae.wisc.edu
Abstract Sports provide a natural experiment on individual choices in games with high
stakes. We study soccer, analysing a simple game theoretic model of a match and using
data to evaluate the performance of this model in explaining actual behaviour. A team's ...
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Optimism and firm formation

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L Rigotti, M Ryan… - Economic Theory, 2011 - Springer
Abstract This paper analyses firm formation and innovation in an economy where agents
differ with respect to their optimism in the face of ambiguity. Individuals choose between
starting a firm or working in one; and also between employing a traditional technology or a ...
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[PDF] Ambiguity Aversion, Entrepreneurship and Innovation

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L Rigotti, M Ryan… - 2011 - homes.eco.auckland.ac.nz
Abstract We consider the take% up of a new technology whose benefits are only vaguely
known (am% biguous). A firm consists of two agents operating either the old or the new
technology, and sharing output according to an ex ante Pareto effi cient contract. ...
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Skill, strategy and passion: an empirical analysis of soccer

F Palomino, L Rigotti… - 1998 - Citeseer
Abstract Sports provide a natural experiment on individual choices in games with high
stakes. We study a game-theoretic model of a soccer match and then evaluate the ability of
this model to explain actual behavior with data from 2885 matches among professional ...
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[PDF] Ambiguity Aversion, Innovation and Investment Bubbles

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L Rigotti, M Ryan… - business.otago.ac.nz
Abstract An" investment bubble" is a period of" excessive, and predictably unprofitable,
investment"(DeMarzo, Kaniel and Kremer, 2007, p. 737). Such bubbles most often
accompany the arrival of some new technology, such as the tech stock boom and bust of ...
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[CITATION] Applications of Knightian Uncertainty

L Rigotti - 1997 - en.scientificcommons.org
Publikationsansicht. 44529439. Applications of Knightian uncertainty / (1997). Rigotti, Luca.
Abstract. Thesis (Ph. D.)--Yale University, 1997. Details der Publikation. Download,
http://worldcat.org/oclc/80855585. Archiv, OCLC's Experimental Thesis Catalog (United States). ...
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