Choice under uncertainty with the best and worst in mind: Neo-additive capacities
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Chateauneuf, Alain; Eichberger, Jürgen; Grant, Simon
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We develop the simplest generalization of subjective expected utility that can accommodate both optimistic and pessimistic attitudes towards uncertainty—Choquet expected utility with non-extreme-outcome-additive (neo-additive) capacities.A neo-additive capacity can be expressed as the convex combination of a probability and a special capacity, we refer to as a Hurwicz capacity, that only distinguishes between whether an event is impossible, possible or certain. We show that neo-additive...[Show more]
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Date published: | 2007 |
Type: | Journal article |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/1885/281498 |
Source: | Journal of Economic Theory |
DOI: | 10.1016/j.jet.2007.01.017 |
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