social behaviour. The expected utility hypothesis states an agent chooses between risky prospects by comparing expected utility values (i.e., the weighted...
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that the expected utility hypothesis does not characterize rationality must reject one of the VNM axioms. A variety of generalized expected utility theories...
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up expected in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Expected may refer to: Expectation (epistemic) Expected value Expected shortfall Expected utility hypothesis...
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Lottery (decision theory) (category Expected utility)
In expected utility theory, a lottery is a discrete distribution of probability on a set of states of nature. The elements of a lottery correspond to the...
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indifference curve analysis of Slutsky, Hicks, and Allen. The expected utility hypothesis of Bernoulli and others was revived by various 20th century thinkers...
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St. Petersburg paradox (redirect from Bernouille's hypothesis)
explicit introduction of a utility function, an expected utility hypothesis, and the presumption of diminishing marginal utility of money. According to Daniel...
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Risk aversion (redirect from CARA utility)
hypothesised that individuals seek to maximise their expected utility rather than the expected monetary value of assets. In defining expected utility...
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Game Theory: John von Neumann and Oskar Morgenstern introduced expected utility hypothesis in their 1944 work Theory of Games and Economic Behavior. Portfolio...
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utility gained by the act of gambling), and measuring deviations from the initial level of utility at the "normal" level of income. Expected utility hypothesis...
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theory known as rational choice theory, particularly in expected utility hypothesis. Expected utility theory relies on a property known as cancellation, which...
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behavioral violations of the expected utility hypothesis, or they may explicitly give a functional form for time-inconsistent utility functions (e.g. Laibson's...
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Concurrently, the Expected utility hypothesis and discounted utility models began to gain acceptance. In challenging the accuracy of generic utility, these concepts...
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Marginalism (section Marginal utility)
indifference curve analysis of Slutsky, Hicks, and Allen. The expected utility hypothesis of Bernoulli et alii was revived by various 20th century thinkers...
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then be defined as the maximization of expected utility. More formally, the resulting expected utility hypothesis states that, if certain axioms are satisfied...
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aversion Risk neutral Risk-loving Minimum acceptable rate of return Expected utility hypothesis LIBOR–OIS spread Risk premia parity Kelly criterion Gagliardini...
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Subjective theory of value (category Utility)
Behavioral economics Consumer capitalism Distribution of wealth Expected utility hypothesis Intrinsic theory of value Labour theory of value Marginalism...
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case the utility function above is replaced by the expected value of a von Neumann-Morgenstern utility function (See expected utility hypothesis). The standard...
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markets Utility Risk aversion Expected utility hypothesis Utility maximization problem Marginal utility Quasilinear utility Generalized expected utility Economic...
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Exogenous and endogenous variables – Exogenous growth model – Expected utility hypothesis – The Experience Economy – Experimental economics – Externality...
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The efficient-market hypothesis (EMH) is a hypothesis in financial economics that states that asset prices reflect all available information. A direct...
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for his development of an expected utility model (EUM), an operationalized application of the expected utility hypothesis from mathematical economics...
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within Frank Ramsey's body of work. Biography portal Clique game Expected utility hypothesis Money pump Ramsey cardinal Structural Ramsey theory Quantum Bayesianism...
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expected causal effects. In a 1981 article, Allan Gibbard and William Harper explained causal decision theory as maximization of the expected utility...
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Harper distinguished between two kinds of expected utility maximization. EDT proposes to maximize the expected utility of actions computed using conditional...
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In physics and thermodynamics, the ergodic hypothesis says that, over long periods of time, the time spent by a system in some region of the phase space...
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History of microeconomics (section Expected utility)
259) Kahneman and Tversky published a paper in 1979 criticising expected utility hypothesis and the very idea of the rational economic agent. The main point...
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The permanent income hypothesis (PIH) is a model in the field of economics to explain the formation of consumption patterns. It suggests consumption patterns...
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Ellsberg paradox (category Paradoxes in utility theory)
paradox in which people's decisions are inconsistent with subjective expected utility theory. John Maynard Keynes published a version of the paradox in 1921...
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statistical hypothesis test is a method of statistical inference used to decide whether the data provide sufficient evidence to reject a particular hypothesis. A...
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The Red Queen's hypothesis is a hypothesis in evolutionary biology proposed in 1973, that species must constantly adapt, evolve, and proliferate in order...
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