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Choice under Uncertainty with the Best and Worst in Mind: Neo-additive Capacities

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Grant, Simon (Rice U)
Chateauneuf, A. (Universite Paris I)
Eichberger, J. (Universitat Heidelberg)

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The concept of a non-extreme-outcome-additive capacity (neo-additive capacity ) is introduced. Neo-additive capacities model optimistic and pessimistic attitudes towards uncertainty as observed in many experimental studies. Moreover, neo-additive capacities can be applied easily in economic problems, as we demonstrate by examples. This paper provides an axiomatisation of Choquet expected utility with neo-capacities in a framework of purely subjective uncertainty.

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Paper provided by Rice University, Department of Economics in its series Working Papers with number 2002-10.

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