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A unified differential information framework assessing that more information is preferred to less

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  • Fugarolas Álvarez-Ude, Guadalupe
  • Hervés-Beloso, Carlos

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The Walrasian model has played a central role in all aspects of economics. The purpose of this paper is to propose a general modeling of differential information in the spirit of the Arrow-Debreu model and following the Radner tradition but away from the usual measurability conception. We provide a characterization of better informed agents in order to firstly formalize an essential feature known as part of some oral tradition: a decisionmaker prefers more information to less.

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  • Fugarolas Álvarez-Ude, Guadalupe & Hervés-Beloso, Carlos, 2005. "A unified differential information framework assessing that more information is preferred to less," MPRA Paper 612, University Library of Munich, Germany.
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    Keywords

    Uncertainty; differential information; information sets; informational feasibility and better informed agents;
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    JEL classification:

    • D80 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - General
    • C65 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Mathematical Methods; Programming Models; Mathematical and Simulation Modeling - - - Miscellaneous Mathematical Tools
    • D50 - Microeconomics - - General Equilibrium and Disequilibrium - - - General

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