Uncertainty Averse Preferences

Cerreia-Vioglio, Simone, Fabio Maccheroni, Massimo Marinacci and Luigi Montrucchio

No 77, Carlo Alberto Notebooks from Collegio Carlo Alberto

Abstract: We study uncertainty averse preferences, that is, complete and transitive preferences that are convex and monotone. We establish a representation result, which is at same time general and rich in structure. Many objective functions commonly used in applications are special cases of this representation.

Keywords: ambiguity aversion; games against nature; model uncertainty; smooth ambiguity preferences; variational preferences (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D81 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
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Date: 2008
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