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What were you thinking? Decision theory as coherence test.

Authors :
Gilboa, Itzhak
Samuelson, Larry
Source :
Theoretical Economics; May2022, Vol. 17 Issue 2, p507-519, 13p
Publication Year :
2022

Abstract

Decision theory can be used to test the logic of decision making—one may ask whether a given set of decisions can be justified by a decision‐theoretic model. Indeed, in principal–agent settings, such justifications may be required—a manager of an investment fund may be asked what beliefs she used when valuing assets and a government may be asked whether a portfolio of rules and regulations is coherent. In this paper we ask which collections of uncertain‐act evaluations can be simultaneously justified under the maxmin expected utility criterion by a single set of probabilities. We draw connections to the fundamental theorem of finance (for the special case of a Bayesian agent) and revealed‐preference results. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Details

Language :
English
ISSN :
15557561
Volume :
17
Issue :
2
Database :
Complementary Index
Journal :
Theoretical Economics
Publication Type :
Academic Journal
Accession number :
157072249
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.3982/TE4707