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Call the Dentist! A (Con-)Cavity in the Value of Information

Theoretical Economics 2024-04-02 v1

Abstract

A natural way of quantifying the ``amount of information'' in decision problems yields a globally concave value for information. Another (in contrast, adversarial) way almost never does.

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@article{arxiv.2404.01190,
  title  = {Call the Dentist! A (Con-)Cavity in the Value of Information},
  author = {Mark Whitmeyer},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2404.01190},
  year   = {2024}
}