Published February 2002
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Journal Article
Ambiguity Made Precise: A Comparative Foundation
- Creators
- Ghirardato, Paolo
- Marinacci, Massimo
Abstract
The theory of subjective expected utility has been recently extended to allow ambiguity to matter for choice. We propose a notion of absolute ambiguity aversion by building on a notion of comparative ambiguity aversion. We characterize it for a preference model which encompasses some of the most popular models in the literature. We next build on these ideas to provide a definition of unambiguous act and event and show the characterization of the latter. As an illustration, we consider the classical Ellsberg 3-color urn problem and find that the notions developed in the paper provide intuitive answers.
Additional Information
© 2001 Elsevier. Received December 12, 1999; final version received August 18, 2000; published online October 6, 2001. An earlier version of this paper was circulated with the title "Ambiguity Made Precise: A Comparative Foundation and Some Implications." We thank Kim Border, Eddie Dekel, Itzhak Gilboa, Tony Kwasnica, Antonio Rangel, David Schmeidler, audiences at Caltech, Johns Hopkins, Northwestern, NYU, Rochester, UC-Irvine, Université Paris I, the TARK VII-Summer Micro Conference (Northwestern, July 1998), the 1999 RUD Workshop, and especially Simon Grant, Peter Klibanoff, Biung-Ghi Ju, Peter Wakker, and an anonymous referee for helpful comments and discussion. Our greatest debt of gratitude is however to Larry Epstein, who sparked our interest on this subject with his paper [8] and stimulated it with many discussions. Marinacci gratefully acknowledges the financial support of MURST.Additional details
- Eprint ID
- 76056
- DOI
- 10.1006/jeth.2001.2815
- Resolver ID
- CaltechAUTHORS:20170408-154332733
- Ministero dell'Istruzione, dell'Università e della Ricerca (MIUR)
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