In this paper, we study the theory of preference over unbounded random prospects using an axiomatic approach. We first show that Yaari's dual independence axiom can be decomposed into two axioms, the homogeneity axiom and the co-monotonic independence with respect to addition axiom, and we...

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...

This paper focuses on the attitude of non-professional investors towards financial losses and their decisions on wealth allocation, and how these change subject to behavioral factors. Our contribution concerns the integration of behavioral elements into the classic portfolio optimization....

Expected utility functions are limited to second-order (conditional) risk aversion, while non-expected utility functions can exhibit either first-order or second-order (conditional) risk aversion. We extend the concept of orders of conditional risk aversion to orders of conditional dependent...

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...

In searching for the optimal preference-free solution for demand of risks, most existing models maximize risk-averse agents' expected utility with an implicit constant-solution assumption a priori. For these problems with unique solution, this extra assumption demands a restrictive distribution...

Necessarily, new technical change is facilitated by the development of new technical proficiencies. Whenever the claim to `new technical change' is robust, the accompanying `new technical proficiencies' facilitate an `outcome', in respect of which `old technical proficiencies' are intractable....

This paper states necessary and sufficient conditions for the existence, uniqueness, and updating according to Bayes´ rule, of subjective probabilities representing individuals´ beliefs. The approach is preference based, and the result is an axiomatic subjective expected utility model of...

This paper develops an axiomatic theory of decision making under uncertainty that dispenses with the state space. The results are subjective expected utility models with unique, action-dependent, subjective probabilities, and a utility function defined over wealth-effect pairs that is unique up...

This paper presents axiomatic models of decision making under uncertainty that avoid the use of a state space. The models are (a) general subjective expected utility theory with action-dependent subjective probabilities and effect-dependent utilities (the cases of effect-independent preferences...