Purpose - In user-oriented websites, e.g. in news websites or in seller websites, it is important to take the user's preferences into account when deciding which items to place in higher-exposure locations. The traditional approach to solving this problem, based on maximizing the average user...

I study whether saving behavior reveals socially relevant intertemporal preferences. To this end, I decompose the present generation’s preference for the next into its dynastic and cross-dynastic components in a model of saving. If people are concerned about the next generation as such, then...

What are the economic consequences to U.S. natives of the growing diversity of American cities? Is their productivity or utility affected by cultural diversity as measured by diversity of countries of birth of U.S. residents? We document in this paper a very robust correlation: US-born citizens...

We characterize optimal consumption policies in a recursive intertemporal utility framework with local substitution. We establish existence and uniqueness and a version of the Kuhn-Tucker theorem characterizing the optimal consumption plan. An explicit solution is provided for the case when the...

This paper investigates the optimal design of incentives when agents distort probabilities. We show that the type of probability distortion displayed by the agent and its degree determine whether an incentivecompatible contract can be implemented, the strength of the incentives included in the...

This note provides a nonparametric test for dynamic discrete random utility models (DDRUM). The methodology can be used to understand the welfare implications of price changes in demand data when there is no uncertainty for consumers that have preferences over product characteristics or discrete...

We define the axioms of quantum game theory and show that classical, Nashian, game theory is a special case of quantum game theory. In our more general framework, we prove the insufficiency of the von Neumann Morgenstern utility, because it is not uniquely defined. Relating utility to the time...

For most of the second half of the 20th century, modern neoclassical finance, and more generally much of social science, has been based on the von Neumann and Morgenstern (VM) (1944) game theory expected utility axioms as a prescription for rational decision making under uncertainty. Traditional...

Utility tokens are digital currencies that serve as the only accepted means of payment for services and products provided through a blockchain-based platform. They finance the development of their product or service, reward and incentivize early adopters and network promoters, align economic...

We generalize the stochastic revealed preference methodology of McFadden and Richter (1990) for finite choice sets to settings with limited consideration. Our approach is nonparametric and requires partial choice set variation. We impose a monotonicity condition on attention first proposed by...

The Allais Paradox is a central motivation for several prominent extensions of expected utility, including rank-dependent theories and the theory of fanning-out indifference curves. We examine the ability of these theories to explain the Allais common consequence effect. The only extension of...

This paper studies existence and uniqueness of recursively defined utility in asset pricing models with preference shocks. We provide conditions that clarify existence and uniqueness for a wide range of models, including exact necessary and sufficient conditions for the most standard...

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...

This paper studies a bilateral risk-sharing problem where both agents are rank-dependent utility maximizers. The market restricts risk allocations to be comonotonic. We first characterize the optimal risk allocation in an implicit way through the calculus of variations. Then, based on the...

We consider social decisions under uncertainty. We show that the ex ante social preference order satisfies a Pareto axiom with respect to ex ante individual preferences, along with an axiom of Statewise Dominance, if and only if all agents admit subjective expected utility (SEU) representations,...

The present paper introduces a theoretical framework through which the degree of risk aversion with respect uncertain prices can be measured through the context of the indirect utility function (IUF) using a lab experiment. First, the paper introduces the main elements of the duality theory (DT)...

Nozick's "utility monster" - a being who is more efficient than other persons at transforming resources into well-being - is often regarded as deeply impossible, on the ground of the incapacity of a single person to have a life that is better than a large number of other lives. In this article,...

A new Archimedean copula family is presented that was derived from the SAHARA utility function introduced in the economic literature in 2011. Its properties are discussed, and its flexibility and versatility are demonstrated. It is left tail decreasing or right tail increasing, but unlike...

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...

In the context of smart markets’ popularization, day-ahead pricing of electricity has been deployed more commonly as an attempt to improve the grid’s operation and maximize the socioeconomic welfare. However, estimating the utility function is necessary to maximize the socioeconomic welfare,...

Backgrounds Limited information is available on the utility values of metastatic pancreatic cancer, focusing on diferent health statuses, selected chemotherapy, and related grades 1/2 and 3/4 adverse events (AEs). We evaluated Japanese societal-based health-related utility values for metastatic...

Risk aversion in game theory is usually modeled using expected utility, which was criticized early on, leading to an extensive literature on generalized expected utility. In this paper we are the first to apply μ-σ theory to the analysis of (static) games. μ-σ theory is widely...

This paper proposes a simple framework to model contextual influences on procedural decision making. In terms of utility, we differentiate between monetary payoffs and contextual psychological ones, e.g. deriving from the subjects' normative frame of reference. Monetary payoffs are treated as...