Skip to main content

1989 | OriginalPaper | Buchkapitel

Stochastic Dominance for the Class of Completely Monotonic Utility Functions

verfasst von : G. A. Whitmore

Erschienen in: Studies in the Economics of Uncertainty

Verlag: Springer New York

Aktivieren Sie unsere intelligente Suche, um passende Fachinhalte oder Patente zu finden.

search-config
loading …

According to the expected utility axioms, a decision maker with utility function u(x) for wealth x assigns the following subjective value to an uncertain prospect with cumulative distribution function F(x). 1$$ E(u;F) = \smallint _0^\infty u(x)dF(x) $$ It is assumed here that wealth level x is positive and that prospect F has moments of all orders.

Metadaten
Titel
Stochastic Dominance for the Class of Completely Monotonic Utility Functions
verfasst von
G. A. Whitmore
Copyright-Jahr
1989
Verlag
Springer New York
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-8922-4_5