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consequences. By properly assessing the outcomes involved - especially those concerning human life - economic theory of choice … under uncertainty is expected to help people take the best decision. However, the widely used expected utility theory values …
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Since von Neuman and Morgenstern's (1944) contribution to game theory, a rational decision maker will rank risky … the way they do it is incoherent (Dubois and Prade (1988)). A familiar object in fuzzy set theory is the one of necessity …
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In this paper we want to explore an argumentative pattern that provides a normative justification for expected utility functions grounded on empirical evidence, showing how it worked in three different episodes of their development. The argument claims that we should prudentially maximize our...
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In this paper, a fully choice-based theory of disappointment is developed. It encompasses, as particular cases, EU … theory, Gul's theory of disappointment (1991) and the models of Loomes and Sugden (1986). According to the new theory, the … the utility of the realized outcome and its expected value. However, unlike the lottery-dependent approach, the theory is …
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comparable prospects, i.e. those which exhibit the same canonical expected utility. This leads to a fully choice-based theory of …
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Although it is endowed with many interesting properties, the theory of decision-making under risk by Loomes and Sugden …
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This paper elaborates an axiomatic treatment of the Subjective Expected Utility (SEU) model that dispenses with the assumption of an exogenous state space. Within a state-free description of uncertainty and alternatives, axioms for preferences are formulated and shown to characterize the...
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This chapter of a collective book aims at presenting the basics of decision making under risk. We first define notions of risk and increasing risk and recall definitions and classifications (that are valid independently of any representation) of behavior under risk. We then review the classical...
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This paper proposes an experiment about the attitude toward probabilities on a population of portfolio managers. Its …
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This paper provides a general framework for a unifying treatment of stochastic dominance of any degree and of any type (direct or inverse for each final or intermediary level). It gives the conditions for the congruence between stochastic dominance and classes of utility functions in this...
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