Transforming Ordinal Riskless Utility into Cardinal Risky Utility: A Comment on Chung, Glimcher, and Tymula (2019)

Peter P. Wakker

doi:10.1257/mic.20190338

Transforming Ordinal Riskless Utility into Cardinal Risky Utility: A Comment on Chung, Glimcher, and Tymula (2019)

Peter P. Wakker^*

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Abstract

Chung, Glimcher, and Tymula (2019) observed both consumers’ choices over commodity bundles and choices under risk. They assumed a cardinal riskless utility function V representing consumer choices and a cardinal risky utility function U. The two were inconsistent. This note shows that the two functions can be reconciled if we assume that V is ordinal. Then one utility function U can accommodate both risky and riskless choices

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	561-565
Number of pages	5
Journal	American Economic Journal: Microeconomics
Volume	14
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1257/mic.20190338
Publication status	Published - May 2022

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JEL Classification:
C91 Design of Experiments: Laboratory, Individual
D12 Consumer Economics: Empirical Analysis
D81 Criteria for Decision-Making under Risk and Uncertainty

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