Counterexamples to "Transitive Regret"
Theoretical Economics
2024-07-02 v1
Abstract
Theorem 1 in Bikhchandani & Segal (2011; Theoretical Economics) suggests that a complete, transitive, monotonic, and continuous preference is regret based if and only if it is expected utility. Their Proposition 1 suggests that transitivity and continuity of a regret-based preference implies an equivalence condition: if random variables and have the same distribution, then . We give counterexamples to Proposition 1.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2407.00055,
title = {Counterexamples to "Transitive Regret"},
author = {Yuan Chang and Shuo Li Liu},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2407.00055},
year = {2024}
}