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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 XX and YY have the same distribution, then XYX\sim Y. We give counterexamples to Proposition 1.

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@article{arxiv.2407.00055,
  title  = {Counterexamples to "Transitive Regret"},
  author = {Yuan Chang and Shuo Li Liu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2407.00055},
  year   = {2024}
}
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