Single-Crossing Differences
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چکیده
We characterize when choices among lotteries over arbitrary allocations are monotonic in an expected-utility agent’s type. Our necessary and sufficient condition is on the von Neumann-Morgenstern utility function; we identify an order over lotteries that generates the choice monotonicity when the condition holds. We discuss applications to cheap-talk games, costly signaling games, and collective choice problems. Our characterization requires some new results on monotone comparative statics and aggregating single-crossing functions, a by-product of which is a characterization of the monotone likelihood ratio property.
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