FIRST INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON
IMPRECISE PROBABILITIES AND THEIR APPLICATIONS

Ghent, Belgium
30 June - 2 July 1999

ELECTRONIC PROCEEDINGS

Michèle Cohen, Itzack Gilboa, Jean-Yves Jaffray, and David Schmeidler

An Experimental Study of Updating Ambiguous Beliefs

Abstract

Ambiguous beliefs`` are beliefs which are inconsistent with a unique, additive prior. The problem of their update in face of new information has been dealt with in the theoretical literature, and received several contradictory answers. In particular, the ``maximum likelihood update`` and the ``full Bayesian update`` have been axiomatized. This experimental study attempts to test the descriptive validity of these two theories by using the Ellsberg experiment framework.

Keywords. Decision Making, Uncertainty, Capacities, Updating, Conditioning rules.

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Authors addresses:

Michele Cohen

EUREQua, Université de Paris I, 106-112, Bld de l'Hopital, 75013, Paris, France

Itzack Gilboa

Tel Aviv University and Boston University,

Jean-Yves Jaffray

LIP6, Universit de Paris VI, 4 Place Jussieu, 75252, Paris Cedex 05, France.

D. Schmeidler

Department of Economics and Statistics, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel and Department of Economics, Ohio State University.

E-mail addresses:

Michèle Cohen cohenmd@univ-paris1.fr
Itzack Gilboa gilboa@econ.tau.ac.il
Jean-Yves Jaffray Jean-Yves.Jaffray@lip6.fr
David Schmeidler schmeid@post.tau.ac.il

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