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and the potential increments over it are evaluated by subjective expected utility with a risky utility function u. In … contrast to earlier approaches with models that aimed at separating riskless and risky utility, CT does not violate basic … irregularities like the expected utility paradoxes of Allais and Rabin, CT also separates risk attitude in the strong sense from …
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Experiments on intertemporal consumption typically show that people have difficulties in optimally solving such … long horizons. We present an experiment comparing decision making under certainty, risk, and ambiguity, over a shorter …
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an ordinal one, when defining suitable approximations to expected utility values. Contrary to the standard literature … directly from the disconnectedness of the range of the utility functions. Conditions for the existence of minimal errors are … evaluation for two or more different prospects with the same expected utility value. As a consequence, a rational decision maker …
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We develop a theory of “risky utilities”, i.e. private firms that manage an infrastructure for public service, and that may be tempted to engage in excessively risky activities, such as reducing maintenance expenditures (at the risk of provoking a break-down of the system) or in speculation...
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