Objective and subjective rationality and decisions with the best and worst case in mind

Theory and Decision 90 (3-4):309-320 (2020)
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Abstract

We study decision under uncertainty in an Anscombe–Aumann framework. Two binary relations characterize a decision-maker: one incomplete relation, reflecting her objective rationality, and a second complete relation, reflecting her subjective rationality. We require the latter to be an extension of the former. Our key axiom is a dominance condition. Our main theorem provides a representation of the two relations. The objectively rational relation has a Bewley-style multiple prior representation. Using this set of priors, we fully characterize the subjectively rational relation in terms of the most optimistic and most pessimistic expected utilities.

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