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On freedom of choice, ambiguity, and the preference for easy choices

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2006

Authors

Dimitrov, Dinko

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Acceso abierto / Sarbide irekia
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Abstract

This paper is devoted to the study of opportunity set comparisons when the characteristics of the options within the sets in question may be ambiguous. We assume that agents display a preference for freedom of choice, but also aversion to the presence of ambiguous options. We propose a suitable environment for approaching this problem, and provide axiomatic characterizations of several rules for ranking sets in such a context.

Keywords

Ambiguity aversion, Easy choices, Ranking sets, Freedom of choice

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Economía / Ekonomia

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The author acknowledges financial support by the Spanish Ministerio de Educacion y Ciencia (SEC2003-08105; SEJ2006-11510) and Junta de Castilla y Leon (VA040A05).

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