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Expected Utility Hypothesis

The expected utility hypothesis asserts that when people are faced with making choices under uncertainty, they do so by maximizing their expected utility.

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Important Papers

• BERNOULLI, Daniel, 1738. Specimen Theoriae Novae de Mensura Sortis, Comentarii Academiae Scientiarum Imperialis Petropolitanae, 5, 175-192. [Cited by 2] (?/year)
• BERNOULLI, Daniel, 1954. Exposition of a New Theory on the Measurement of Risk, Econometrica, Vol. 22, No. 1. (Jan., 1954), pp. 23-36. [Cited by 173] (3.33/year)
• von NEUMANN, John and Oskar MORGENSTERN, 1944. Theory of Games and Economic Behavior, Princeton University Press. [Cited by 3352] (63.22/year)

Bernoulli (1954) is a translation of Bernoulli (1738).

Links

• Wikipedia: Expected utility
• SFB 504 glossary: Utility, expected utility
• W. Russ Payne: Expected Utility