model generalizes many well known utility functions for intertemporal decision making under risk. A decision maker with a …We propose a novel utility representation for preferences over risky timed outcomes. The weighted temporal utility … weighted temporal utility function can have time consistent yet non-stationary preferences or stationary yet time inconsistent …

-down" model of executive optimization. Others, like salience theory, assume a "bottom-up" influence where attention is driven by … understanding of their relative importance. We propose a multi-attribute random utility model that unifies prior theoretical … aversion. We discuss the insights regarding the nature of attention and its role in economic theory. …

We show that if an agent is uncertain about the precise form of his utility function, his actual relative risk aversion … may depend on wealth even if he knows his utility function lies in the class of constant relative risk aversion (CRRA …) utility functions. We illustrate the consequences of this result for asset allocation: poor agents that are uncertain about …

experiments. Contrary to the traditional view of expected utility theory, the choices can be explained in large part by previous … outcomes experienced during the game. Risk aversion decreases after earlier expectations have been shattered by unfavorable … outcomes or surpassed by favorable outcomes. Our results point to reference-dependent choice theories such as prospect theory …

An expected utility based cost-benefit analysis is in general fragile to its distributional assumptions. We derive … necessary and sufficient conditions on the utility function of the expected utility model to avoid this. The conditions ensure … that expected (marginal) utility remains finite also under heavy-tailed distributional assumptions. Our results are context …