Cardinal Utility Function

2014 ◽  
pp. 538-539
Author(s):  
Richard Edlin
Keyword(s):  
Utility Function ◽  
Cardinal Utility

From Chicago to Paris

2018 ◽  
pp. 177-192
Author(s):  
Ivan Moscati
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Utility Function ◽  
Expected Utility ◽  
Economic Model ◽  
Expected Utility Theory ◽  
Second Phase ◽  
Cardinal Utility ◽  
Decision Making Under Risk ◽  
The Face

Chapter 11 studies the second phase of the debate on expected utility theory (EUT), which commenced in May 1950, when Paul Samuelson, Leonard J. Savage, Jacob Marschak, Milton Friedman, and William Baumol initiated an intense exchange of letters. These economists argued about the exact assumptions underlying EUT, quarreled over whether these assumptions are compelling requisites for rational behavior under risk, and debated the nature of the cardinal utility function u featured in EUT. This correspondence modified the views of all five economists and transformed Samuelson into a supporter of EUT. In a prominent conference in Paris in May 1952, Friedman, Savage, Marschak, and Samuelson advocated EUT in the face of attacks from Maurice Allais and other opponents of the theory. The Paris conference and the publication of an Econometrica symposium on EUT in October 1952 marked the emergence of EUT as the mainstream economic model of decision-making under risk.

scholarly journals Least Concave Ordinal Utility Function and the Marshalian Cardinal Utility

2012 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 9-16
Author(s):  
Taradas Bandyopadhyay ◽  
Tapan Biswas
Keyword(s):  
Utility Function ◽  
Utility Functions ◽  
Cardinal Utility ◽  
Ordinal Utility

This paper examines the conditions under which the Marshallian type of cardinal utility function can be derived from a class of ordinal utility functions.

What Is That Function?

2018 ◽  
pp. 163-176
Author(s):  
Ivan Moscati
Keyword(s):  
Utility Function ◽  
Expected Utility ◽  
Utility Theory ◽  
Expected Utility Theory ◽  
Cardinal Utility ◽  
John Von Neumann ◽  
Von Neumann ◽  
Milton Friedman

Chapter 10 reconstructs the first part of the American debate on expected utility theory (EUT), which ranges from 1947, when the second edition of John von Neumann and Oskar Morgenstern’s Theory of Games was published, to April 1950. In this period, a number of eminent American economists, including Milton Friedman, Leonard J. Savage, Jacob Marschak, Paul Samuelson, and William Baumol, wrote papers in which they took stances on the validity of EUT and the nature of the cardinal utility function u featured in the expected utility formula. Friedman, Savage, and Marschak supported EUT, although for different reasons, while Samuelson and Baumol rejected it. Regarding the nature of the cardinal utility function u, however, they all shared the view that it is interchangeable with the utility function U that the earlier utility theorists had used to analyze choices between riskless alternatives.

scholarly journals St Petersburg paradox and cardinal utility function

2004 ◽  
Vol 52 (1) ◽  
pp. 48-60 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jiří Hlaváček ◽  
Michal Hlaváček
Keyword(s):  
Utility Function ◽  
Cardinal Utility ◽  
Petersburg Paradox

Analisa Pemilihan Moda Transportasi Umum Rute Tanjung Karang – Bandara Radin Inten II Dengan Stated Preference dan Uji Crame’s V

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 137
Author(s):  
Muhammad Abi Berkah Nadi
Keyword(s):  
Regression Analysis ◽  
Utility Function ◽  
Stated Preference ◽  
Technical Analysis ◽  
Chi Square ◽  
Time Headway ◽  
Independent Variable ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Selection Of

Radin Inten II Airport is a national flight in Lampung Province. In this study using the technical analysis stated preference which is the approach by conveying the choice statement in the form of hypotheses to be assessed by the respondent. By using these techniques the researcher can fully control the hypothesized factors. To determine utility function for model forecasting in fulfilling request of traveler is used regression analysis with SPSS program. The analysis results obtained that the passengers of the dominant airport in the selection of modes of cost attributes than on other attributes. From the result of regression analysis, the influence of independent variable to the highest dependent variable is when the five attributes are used together with the R square value of 8.8%. The relationship between cost, time, headway, time acces and service with the selection of modes, the provision that states whether or not there is a decision. The significance of α = 0.05 with chi-square. And the result of Crame's V test average of 0.298 is around the middle, then the relationship is moderate enough.

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