Subjective Expected Utility with Non-Increasing Risk Aversion


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volume 19, issue 1 pp 219-228.
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It is shown that assumptions about risk aversion, usually studied under the pre-supposition of expected utility maximization, have a surprising extra merit at an earlier stage of the measurement work: together with the sure-thing principle, these assumptions imply subjective expected utility maximization for monotonic continuous weak orders.



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