Regret aversion and opportunity dependence
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This paper provides an axiomatic model of decision making under uncertainty in which the decision maker is driven by anticipated ex-post regrets. Our model allows both regret aversion and likelihood judgement over states to coexist. Also, we characterize two special cases, minimax regret with multiple priors that generalizes Savage’s minimax regret, and a smooth model of regret aversion.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- J. Economic Theory
دوره 139 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2008