Uncertainty in economic theory : essays in honor of David Schmeidler's 65th birthday

Online-Ressource (xiv, 558 p)

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24 cm

Routledge frontiers of political economy ; 63

Includes bibliographical references and index

Uncertainty in Economic Theory; Copyright; Contents; List of Contributors; Preface; Part I Theory; 1 Introduction; 2 Preference axiomatizations for decision under uncertainty; 3 Defining ambiguity and ambiguity attitude; 4 Introduction to the mathematics of ambiguity; 5 Subjective probability and expected utility without additivity; 6 MAxmin expected utility with non-unique prior; 7 A simple axiomatization of nonadditive expected utility; 8 Updating ambigous beliefs; 9 A definition of uncertainty aversion; 10 Ambiguity made precise: A comparative made precise

11 Stochastically independent randomization and uncertainty aversion12 Decomposition and representation of coalitional games; Part II Applications; 13 An overview of ecnomic applications of David Schmeidler's models of decision making under uncertainty; 14 Ambiguity aversion and incompleteness of contractual form; 15 Ambiguity aversion and incompleteness of financial markets; 16 A quartet of semigroups for model specification, robustness, prices of risk, and model detection; 17 Uncertainty aversion, risk aversion, and the optimal choice of portfolio

18 Intertemporal asset pricing under knightian uncertainty19 Sharing beliefs; 20 Equilibrium in beliefs under uncertainity; 21 The right to remain silent; 22 On the measurement of inequality under uncertainty; Index

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