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Discounted Subjective Expected Utility in Continuous Time

Theoretical Economics 2024-03-25 v1

Abstract

By embedding uncertainty into time, we obtain a conjoint axiomatic characterization of both Exponential Discounting and Subjective Expected Utility that accommodates arbitrary state and outcome spaces. In doing so, we provide a novel and simple time-interpretation of subjective probability. The subjective probability of an event is calibrated using time discounting.

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@article{arxiv.2403.15319,
  title  = {Discounted Subjective Expected Utility in Continuous Time},
  author = {Lorenzo Bastianello and Vassili Vergopoulos},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2403.15319},
  year   = {2024}
}
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