ECON 416 · Behavioral Economics

Ambiguity Aversion

Inertia under maxmin expected utility

buy sell stay put

The problem

A maxmin decision maker judges each action by the worst urn for that action.

1. Final wealth

Wealth after the ball is drawn, for each action and each colour.

2. Worst-case probabilities

The probability of red or blue in the urn that is worst for each action. Fractions such as 30/90 or decimals to two places are accepted.

3. Maxmin expected utility

Worst-case expected utility

Computed from the sliders. The best action is highlighted and matches the strip under the plot.