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Subjective Expected Utility and Psychological Gambles

General Economics 2024-11-05 v2 Economics

Abstract

We obtain an elementary characterization of expected utility based on a representation of choice in terms of psychological gambles, which requires no assumption other than coherence between ex-ante and ex-post preferences. Weaker version of coherence are associated with various attitudes towards complexity and lead to a characterization of minimax or Choquet expected utility.

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@article{arxiv.2307.10328,
  title  = {Subjective Expected Utility and Psychological Gambles},
  author = {Gianluca Cassese},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2307.10328},
  year   = {2024}
}
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