Rational Preferences under Ambiguity

Simone Cerreia-Vioglio, Paolo Ghirardato, Fabio Maccheroni, Massimo Marinacci and Marciano Siniscalchi

No 169, Carlo Alberto Notebooks from Collegio Carlo Alberto

Abstract: This paper analyzes preferences in the presence of ambiguity that are rational in the sense of satisfying the classical ordering condition as well as monotonicity. Under technical conditions that are natural in an Anscombe-Aumann environment, we show that even for such general preference model it is possible to identify a set of priors, as first envisioned by Ellsberg (1961). We then discuss ambiguity attitudes, as well as unambiguous acts and events, for the class of rational preferences we consider.

Keywords: Rational Preferences; Ambiguity; Unambiguous Acts and Events (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D81 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 42 pages
Date: 2010
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