In: Economics
True or False questions and brief explanation for each question:
1. A person that chooses the alternative that has the highest Expected Value, when risk is involved, violates the assumptions of expected utility maximisation. ? True ? False
2. An expected utility maximizer with u(x) = log(x) rejects all fair gambles (i.e. those with an expected value of zero). ? True ? False
3. Prospect Theory can explain the Ellsberg Paradox. ? True ? False
4. Sophisticated Quasi-Hyperbolic Discounters behave time consistently, as they know that they will have a present bias in future decisions and therefore act to eliminate the bias. ? True ? False
5. The outcome resulting from a Nash Equilibirum is socially efficient, since in a Nash Equilibrium all players play best responses to each other. ? True ? False
6. Rational preferences should only depend on the person’s own outcomes (such as their own consumption, wealth, etc.) ? True ? False
7. Jack, who has the utility function u(x, y) = x − γy, where x is his own material payoff, while y is the material payoff of his neighbour, can be described as envious. ? True ? False
8. Somebody who plays the lottery cannot be an expected utility maximizer. ? True ? False
9. If somebody is taking drugs, then that does not necessarily mean that she/he cannot be an exponential discounter. ? True ? False
10. The Allais Paradox demonstrates that many humans evaluate the same lotteries differently if they are combined with the same other lottery. ? True ? False