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under this kind of uncertainty, with preferences that satisfy the expected utility hypothesis. Various social welfare …, where the utilitarian and Rawlsian recommend the same intergenerational allocation. Second, we consider a productive economy …) different. Surprisingly, when the utilitarian optimization program diverges, then it is optimal for the extended Rawlsian to …
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This paper aims to consider the meaning of the dismal theorem, as is presented by Professor Martin Weitzman. The theorem states that a standard cost–benefit analysis breaks down if there is a possibility of catastrophes occurring. This result has a significant influence on debates on the...
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In this study, we present a behavioral definition of betrayal aversion with sources of uncertainty and develop a … betrayal aversion depend on the perception of uncertainty in each trust game. In terms of uncertainty attitudes, we show that … as trusters become more uncertainty-averse, they also become more betrayal-averse. Furthermore, we incorporate social …
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attitudes towards uncertainty and are ignorant to relevant aspects of the environment. Players in strategic games face Knightian … uncertainty about opponents' actions and maximize individually their Choquet expected utility. Our Choquet expected utility model … allows for both an optimistic or pessimistic attitude towards uncertainty as well as ignorance to strategic dependencies. An …
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pessimistic attitudes towards uncertainty and are ignorant to relevant aspects of the environment. Players in strategic games face … Knightian uncertainty about opponents' actions and maximize individually their Choquet expected utility with respect to neo …-additive capacities (Chateauneuf, Eichberger, and Grant, 2007) allowing for both an optimistic or pessimistic attitude towards uncertainty …
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future utility when uncertainty increases over time. The more we know about the future welfare consequences of our (in …)actions, the more weight they receive. If uncertainty is endogenous to the decision process, the new rationale for discounting will … preference ; discounting ; uncertainty ; expected utility ; recursive utility ; risk aversion ; intertemporal substitutability …
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his confidence in the uncertainty assessment of a particular setting …
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We decompose the generalized Lorenz order into a size and a distribution component. The former is represented by stochastic dominance, the latter by the standard Lorenz order. We show that it is always possible, given generalized Lorenz dominance between two distributions F and G, to find...
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In his presidential address to the American Economic Association, Robert Lucas claimed that the welfare costs of the business cycle in the United States equaled .05 percent of consumption. His calculation compared the utility of a representative consumer receiving actual per-capita consumption...
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This article reconsiders the Harsanyi--Sen debate concerning whether Harsanyi is justified in interpreting his Aggregation and Impartial Observer Theorems as providing axiomatizations of utilitarianism. Sen's criticism and its formalization by Weymark are based on the claim that von...
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