A Dynamic Ellsberg Urn Experiment

Adam Dominiak, Peter Dürsch and Jean-Philippe Lefort

No 487, Working Papers from University of Heidelberg, Department of Economics

Abstract: Two rationality arguments are used to justify the link between conditional and unconditional preferences in decision theory: dynamic consistency and consequentialism. Dynamic consistency requires that ex ante contingent choices are respected by updated preferences. Consequentialism states that only those outcomes which are still possible can matter for updated preferences. We test the descriptive validity of these rationality arguments with a dynamic version of Ellsberg's three color experiment and find that subjects act more often in line with consequentialism than with dynamic consistency.

Keywords: Non expected utility preferences; ambiguity; updating; dynamic consistency; consequentialism (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C91 D81 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009-09-21
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