We derive a family of probabilistic choice models including the multinomial logit model, from a microeconomic model in which the decision maker has to make some effort in order to avoid mistakes when implementing any desired outcome. The disutility of this effort enters the decision maker's goal...

This paper explores the relationship between dynamic consistency and the existing notions of unambiguous events for Choquet expected utility preferences. A decision maker is faced with an information structure represented by a filtration. We show that the decision maker's preferences respect...

This paper argues that forecast estimators should minimise the loss function in a statistical, rather than deterministic, way. We introduce two new elements into the classical econometric analysis: a subjective guess on the variable to be forecasted and a probability reflecting the confidence...

Was in Märkten sich künftig ereignen wird, kann man nicht wissen, nur erwarten. Was man erwartet, wird in der Ökonomik probabilistisch eingearbeitet: als Risikoentscheidungen. Elena Esposito zufolge besteht unter Ökonomen aber ein fundamentales Missverständnis bezüglich der...

Elena Esposito analysiert das ökonomische Entscheiden in Zukunftsmärkten (finance) als „Fiktion der wahrscheinlichen Realität“ (Esposito 2007). Eine ‚wahrscheinliche Realität’ ist eine Realitätsvermutung. In der Vermutung steckt eine Vorauswahl dessen, was wahrscheinlicher ist als...

In this article we propose a two stage procedure to model demand decisions by customers who are balancing several dimensions of a product. We then test our procedure by analyzing the behavior of buyers from an Austrian price comparison site. Although in such a market a consumer will typically...

Contemporary approaches to decision making describe a decision problem by sets of states and outcomes, and a rich set of acts: functions from states to outcomes over which the decision maker (DM) has preferences. Real problems do not come so equipped. It is often unclear what the state and...

In this article we propose a two stage procedure to model demand decisions by customers who are balancing several dimensions of a product. We then test our procedure by analyzing the behavior of buyers from an Austrian price comparison site. Although in such a market a consumer will typically...