A Revealed Preference Test for Choquet and Max-Min Expected Utility with Ambiguity Aversion

Thomas Demuynck and Clément Staner

American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, 2024, vol. 16, issue 4, 291-328

Abstract: We develop a revealed preference test for the Choquet expected utility model with ambiguity aversion, which does not rely on specific functional form assumptions on the utility index. It is computationally efficient if the number of states is not too large, even for a large number of observations. This is a nice feature compared to other existing revealed preference tests for decision models with ambiguity. We illustrate the usefulness of our results by implementing our test on two experimental datasets from the literature, and we compare the empirical fit of this model to the subjective expected utility model.

JEL-codes: C91 D81 D91 G41 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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