Sugden, R. (2007) The value of opportunities over time when preferences are unstable. Social Choice and Welfare, 29 (4). pp. 665-682. ISSN 0176-1714
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Most work on measuring opportunity is directed at ranking opportunity sets. This paper addresses the more general issue of assessing the opportunity provided by multi-period decision problems, focusing on the dynamic inconsistencies that can occur if agent's preferences are unstable. A principle is proposed by which a dominance relation among outcomes iteratively induces a dominance relation among multi-period problems. This principle implies that opportunities to make sequences of individually reasonable actions have positive value, even if, because of dynamic inconsistency, those sequences lead to unambiguous loss. Opportunities which allow an agent to constrain herself are shown to have zero value.
Item Type: | Article |
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Faculty \ School: | Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Economics |
UEA Research Groups: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Groups > Economic Theory Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Centres > Centre for Behavioural and Experimental Social Sciences Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Centres > Centre for Competition Policy Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Groups > Behavioural Economics |
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Depositing User: | Pure Connector |
Date Deposited: | 19 Nov 2013 16:15 |
Last Modified: | 18 Apr 2023 23:43 |
URI: | https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/44511 |
DOI: | 10.1007/s00355-007-0250-3 |
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