Powers, Michael R. - In: Risks : open access journal 3 (2015) 1, pp. 26-34
We identify restrictions on a decision maker's utility function that are both necessary and sufficient to preserve … dominance reasoning in each of two versions of the Two-Envelope Paradox (TEP). For the classical TEP, the utility function must … satisfy a certain recurrence inequality. For the St. Petersburg TEP, the utility function must be bounded above asymptotically …