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Random Expected Utility

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Faruk Gul
Wolfgang Pesendorfer

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We develop and analyze a model of random choice and random expected utility. A decision problem is a finite set of lotteries that describe the feasible choices. A random choice rule associates with each decision problem a probability measure over choices. A random utility function is a probability measure over von Neumann-Morgenstern utility functions. We show that a random choice rule maximizes some random utility function if and only if it is mixture continuous, monotone (the probability that a lottery is chosen does not increase when other lotteries are added to the decision problem), extreme (lotteries that are not extreme points of the decision problem are chosen with probability 0), and linear (satisfies the independence axiom). Copyright The Econometric Society 2006.

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Volume (Year): 74 (2006)
Issue (Month): 1 (01)
Pages: 121-146
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  1. Stephen A. Clark, 1995. "The random utility model with an infinite choice space," Economic Theory, Springer, vol. 7(1), pages 179-189.
  2. Fishburn, Peter C., 1992. "Induced binary probabilities and the linear ordering polytope: a status report," Mathematical Social Sciences, Elsevier, vol. 23(1), pages 67-80, February. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
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  4. Barbera, Salvador & Pattanaik, Prasanta K, 1986. "Falmagne and the Rationalizability of Stochastic Choices in Terms of Random Orderings," Econometrica, Econometric Society, vol. 54(3), pages 707-15, May. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
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  1. Faruk Gul & Wolfgang Pesendorfer, 2005. "Random Expected Utility," Levine's Bibliography 122247000000000834, UCLA Department of Economics. [Downloadable!]
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