On ambiguity apportionment

Christophe Courbage () and Beatrice Rey ()
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Christophe Courbage: University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland (HES-SO)

Journal of Economics, 2016, vol. 118, issue 3, No 4, 265-275

Abstract: Abstract This paper investigates the notion of changes in ambiguity over loss probabilities in the smooth ambiguity model developed by Klibanoff, Marinacci and Mukerji (Econometrica 73:1849–1892, 2005). Changes in ambiguity over loss probabilities are expressed through the specific concept of stochastic dominance of order n defined by Ekern (Econ Lett 6:329–333, 1980). We characterize conditions on the function capturing attitudes towards ambiguity under which an individual always considers one situation to be more ambiguous than another in a model of two states of nature. We propose an intuitive interpretation of the properties of this function in terms of preferences for harms disaggregation over probabilities, also labelled ambiguity apportionment.

Keywords: Smooth ambiguity aversion; More ambiguity; Ambiguity apportionment; Stochastic dominance (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D81 H50 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1007/s00712-016-0473-9

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