Sequential decision making without independence: a new conceptual approach

Antoine Nebout

Theory and Decision, 2014, vol. 77, issue 1, 85-110

Abstract: This paper presents a critical reflection on dynamic consistency as commonly used in economics and decision theory, and on the difficulty to test it experimentally. It distinguishes between the uses of the term dynamic consistency in order to characterize two different properties: the first accounts for the neutrality of individual preferences towards the timing of resolution of uncertainty whereas the second guarantees that a strategy chosen at the beginning of a sequential decision problem is immune to any reevaluation and will effectively be implemented from then on in the decision problem. Although these two properties are equivalent under expected utility (EU), this is not the case under non-EU. Building on the possible characteristics of individual dynamic preferences under risk, this paper proposes a conceptual categorization, that is experimentally testable, of possible sequential decision making behaviors of non-EU maximizers. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media New York 2014

Keywords: Risk; Independence axiom; Dynamic consistency; Consequentialism; Sequential decision making; C91; D81 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1007/s11238-013-9387-y

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