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MIYAGISHIMA Kaname
Department Aoyama Gakuin University Department of Economics, College of Economics Position Professor |
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| Language | English |
| Publication Date | 2022/02 |
| Type | Academic Journal |
| Peer Review | Peer reviewed |
| Title | Efficiency, equity, and social rationality under uncertainty |
| Contribution Type | Single |
| Journal | Economic Theory |
| Journal Type | Another Country |
| Publisher | Springer |
| Volume, Issue, Page | 73,pp.237-255 |
| Details | In a simple model where agents’ monetary payoffs are uncertain, this paper examines the aggregation of subjective expected utility functions which are interpersonally noncomparable. A maximin social welfare criterion is derived from axioms of efficiency, ex post equity, and social rationality, combined with the independence of beliefs and risk preferences in riskless situations (Chambers and Echenique in Games Econ Behav 76:582–595, 2012). The criterion compares allocations by the values of the prospects composed of the statewise minimum payoffs evaluated by the certainty equivalents. Because of this construction, the criterion is egalitarian and risk averse. |