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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 … extensions of the original expected utility theory, and the analysis of the main properties of the cumulative prospect theory …
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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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and ambiguity aversion. This is modeled as a random set of beliefs in the maxmin expected utility model of Gilboa and … for the study of models of random non-linear utility. …
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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 utility, and cumulative prospect theory, which accommodate ambiguity …
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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 … simultaneously justified under the maxmin expected utility criterion by a single set of probabilities. We draw connections to the the …
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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 experimental dataset and find evidence against random expected utility …
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characterize an EBUU decision maker. Conditional on a reference or "balancing value," the latter assigns a utility to each outcome …We introduce and analyze expected balanced uncertain utility (EBUU) theory. A prior and a balanced outcome-set utility …-set. The decision maker associates with each act, its envelope, the minimal measurable mapping from states to outcome-sets that …
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Keynes (1921) and Ellsberg (1961) have articulated an aversion toward betting on an urn containing balls of two colors of unknown proportion to one with a 50-50 composition. Keynes views this as reflecting different preferences for bets arising from different sources of uncertainty. Ellsberg...
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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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One of the most well-known models of non-expected utility is Gul (1991)'s model of Disappointment Aversion. This model …, however, is defined implicitly, as the solution to a functional equation; its explicit utility representation is unknown …
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