-dimensional decision outcomes, economic theory assumes a uni-dimensional utility measure. This paper reviews evidence from behavioral and …Although decision makers are often reported to have difficulties in making comparisons between multi … brain sciences to assess whether, and for what reasons, this assumption may be warranted. It is claimed that the decision …

probability. With some notable exceptions, the empirical literature seems intent on either making those strong assumptions or … structural maximum likelihood methods. This allows the observer to make inferences about the latent subjective probability … consistently with expected utility theory or rank-dependent utility theory. Inferred subjective probabilities are significantly …

We provide characterizations of preferences representable by a Cobb-Douglas utility function. …

In most economics textbooks there is a gap between the non-existence of utility functions and the existence of … continuous utility functions, although upper semi-continuity is sufficient for many purposes. Starting from a simple constructive … the existence of upper semi-continuous utility functions on a wide class of domains. Although links between utility theory …

Models of labor supply derived from stochastic utility representations and discretized sets of feasible hours of work …

In economic theory, utility depends on past, present and future outcomes. The experiment described in this paper … suggests that utility also depends on people's attitudes, and that it can easily be manipulated through these attitudes. The … results imply, first, that purely outcome-based models of individual utility may be incomplete. Second, that reference …

The concept of utility is often used in ambiguous ways in economics, from having substantive psychological connotations … conceive of utility. It turns out that empirical evidence does not favor a view of multidimensional utility. This does not … eliminate the possibility to make a normative argument supporting a multidimensional notion of utility. …