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We present a novel characterization of random rank-dependent expected utility for finite datasets and finite prizes. As a byproduct, we obtain a characterization of random expected utility that works for finite datasets. The test lends itself to statistical testing. We apply our test to an...
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Expected utility theory (EUT) is currently the standard framework which formally defines rational decision-making under …
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Is it possible to guarantee that the mere exposure of a subject to a belief elicitation task will not affect the very same beliefs that we are trying to elicit? In this paper, we introduce mechanisms that make it simultaneously strictly dominant for the subject (a) not to acquire any information...
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The analysis of optimal risk sharing has been thus far largely restricted to nonexpected utility models with concave utility functions, where concavity is an expression of ambiguity aversion and/or risk aversion. This paper extends the analysis to α-maxmin expected utility, Choquet expected...
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choosing a solution is modeling the decision maker's attitude to risk. The expected utility theory was the first approach that …
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Decision theory can be used to test the logic of decision making - one may ask whether a given set of decisions can be … justified by a decision-theoretic model. Indeed, in principal-agent settings, such justifications may be required - a manager of …
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Among the reasons behind the choice behavior of an individual taking a stochastic form are her potential indifference or indecisiveness between certain alternatives, and/or her willingness to experiment in the sense of occasionally deviating from choosing a best alternative in order to give a...
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Expected utility theory is critical for modeling rational decision making under uncertainty, guiding economic agents as … firms, demonstrating the practical implications of our findings in economic decision making. …
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characterize an EBUU decision maker. Conditional on a reference or "balancing value," the latter assigns a utility to each outcome …-set. The decision maker associates with each act, its envelope, the minimal measurable mapping from states to outcome-sets that …
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We introduce a model of random ambiguity aversion. Choice is stochastic due to unobserved shocks to both information and ambiguity aversion. This is modeled as a random set of beliefs in the maxmin expected utility model of Gilboa and Schmeidler (1989). We characterize the model and show that...
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