Differentiating ambiguity and ambiguity attitude

The objective of this paper is to show how ambiguity, and a decision maker (DM)'s response to it, can be modelled formally in the context of a general decision model. We introduce a relation derived from the DM's preferences, called “unambiguous preference”, and show that it can be represe...

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Published in:Journal of economic theory 2004-10, Vol.118 (2), p.133-173
Main Authors: Ghirardato, Paolo, Maccheroni, Fabio, Marinacci, Massimo
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Ambiguity
Clarke differentials
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Expected utility
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Unambiguous preference
α-maxmin expected utility
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