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| Title: | | Preference-dependent unawareness  |
| Authors: | | Schipper, Burkhard |
| Issue Date: | | 2011 |
| Series/Report no.: | | Working Papers, University of California, Department of Economics 11,6 |
| Abstract: | | Morris (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. |
| Subjects: | | unawareness awareness knowledge preferences subjective expected utility theory decision theory null event |
| JEL: | | C70 C72 D80 D82 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | Working Papers, Department of Economics, UC Davis
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