Another Solution for Allais Paradox: Preference Imprecision, Dispersion and Pessimism

Oben Bayrak ()

MPRA Paper from University Library of Munich, Germany

Abstract: Although there are alternative models which can explain the Allais paradox with non-standard preferences, they do not take the emerging evidence on preference imprecision into account. The imprecision is so far incorporated into these models by adding a stochastic specification implying the errors that subjects make. However, there is also the inherent part of the preference imprecision which does not diminish with experience provided in repeated experiments and these stochastic specifications cannot explain a significant portion of the observed behavior in experiments. Moreover, evidence on imprecision suggests that subjects exhibit higher imprecision for a lottery with a higher variance. This paper presents a new model for decision under risk which takes into account the findings of the literature. Looking at the indifference curves predicted by the new model, the new model acts like a mixture of Expected Utility Theory and Rank Dependent Utility Theory depending on which part of the probability triangle the lottery is located.

Keywords: Allais Paradox; Independence Axiom; Preference Imprecision; Anomalies; Decision Theory; Decision under Risk and Uncertainty; Alternative Models (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A1 A10 B0 C0 C9 D0 D00 D01 D02 D03 D04 D10 D11 D8 D80 D81 D83 D89 G0 G02 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016-05-31
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