Aggregating Tastes, Beliefs, and Attitudes Under Uncertainty

Brian Hill () and Eric Danan

No 1057, HEC Research Papers Series from HEC Paris

Abstract: The authors provide possibility results on the aggregation of beliefs and tastes for Monotone, Bernoullian and Archimedian preferences of Cerreia-Vioglio, Ghirardato, Maccheroni, Marinacci, and Siniscalchi (2011). The authors propose a new axiom, Unambiguous Pareto Dominance, which requires that if the unambiguous part of individuals’ preferences over a pair of acts agree, then society should follow them. They characterize the resulting social preferences and show that it is enough that individuals share a prior to allow non dictatorial aggregation. A further weakening of this axiom on common-taste acts, where cardinal preferences are identical, is also characterized. It gives rise to a set of relevant priors at the social level that can be any subset of the convex hull of the individuals’ sets of relevant priors. The authors then apply these general results to the Maxmin Expected Utility model, the Choquet Expected Utility model and the Smooth Ambiguity model. They end with a characterization of the aggregation of ambiguity attitudes.

Keywords: Preference Aggregation; Social Choice; Uncertainty (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D71 D81 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 27 pages
Date: 2014-07-20
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Working Paper: Aggregating Tastes, Beliefs, and Attitudes under Uncertainty (2014)
Working Paper: Aggregating Tastes, Beliefs, and Attitudes under Uncertainty (2014)
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