Imprecise probabilistic beliefs as a context for decision-making under ambiguity

نویسنده

  • Klaus Nehring
چکیده

Coherent imprecise probabilistic beliefs are modelled as incomplete comparative likelihood relations admitting a multiple-prior representation. Under a structural assumption of Equidivisibility, we provide an axiomatization of such relations and show uniqueness of the representation. In the second part of the paper, we formulate a behaviorally general “Likelihood Compatibility” axiom relating preferences and probabilistic beliefs and characterize its implications for the class of “invariant biseparable” preferences that includes the MEU and CEU models among others.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • J. Economic Theory

دوره 144  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2009