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dc.contributor.authorSchipper, Burkhard C.en
dc.date.accessioned2012-06-07-
dc.date.accessioned2012-06-12T13:33:34Z-
dc.date.available2012-06-12T13:33:34Z-
dc.date.issued2011-
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10419/58369-
dc.description.abstractMorris (1996, 1997) introduced preference-based definitions of knowledge of belief in standard state-space structures. This paper extends this preference-based approach to unawareness structures (Heifetz, Meier, and Schipper, 2006, 2008). By defining unawareness and knowledge in terms of preferences over acts in unawareness structures and showing their equivalence to the epistemic notions of unawareness and knowledge, we try to build a bridge between decision theory and epistemic logic. Unawareness of an event is behaviorally characterized as the event being null and its negation being null.en
dc.language.isoengen
dc.publisher|aUniversity of California, Department of Economics |cDavis, CAen
dc.relation.ispartofseries|aWorking Paper |x11-6en
dc.subject.jelC70en
dc.subject.jelC72en
dc.subject.jelD80en
dc.subject.jelD82en
dc.subject.ddc330en
dc.subject.keywordunawarenessen
dc.subject.keywordawarenessen
dc.subject.keywordknowledgeen
dc.subject.keywordpreferencesen
dc.subject.keywordsubjective expecteden
dc.subject.keywordutility theoryen
dc.subject.keyworddecision theoryen
dc.subject.keywordnull eventen
dc.titlePreference-dependent unawareness-
dc.typeWorking Paperen
dc.identifier.ppn717281752en
dc.rightshttp://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungenen

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