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Decision Making And Saint Petersburg Paradox: Focusing On Heuristic Parameters, Considering The Non-Ergodic Context And The Gambling Risks

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  • Antonio Cappiello

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The Saint Petersburg Paradox is still a contemporary issue because of the great impact on the probabilistic theory and decision-making. This article proposes some hints on avoiding the trap of the infinite expected value (EV). The highly stochastic mechanism and its EV have always to be contextualized in the limited period where we take our choices taking into account all possible limitations deriving from the theory (including the non-ergodic features and some inappropriate consequences we may attribute to the EV). This contextualisation is one of the most important factors to consider especially when we deal with infinite quantity coming from models that may misrepresent our field of application and therefore generate paradoxes.

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  • Antonio Cappiello, 2016. "Decision Making And Saint Petersburg Paradox: Focusing On Heuristic Parameters, Considering The Non-Ergodic Context And The Gambling Risks," RIEDS - Rivista Italiana di Economia, Demografia e Statistica - The Italian Journal of Economic, Demographic and Statistical Studies, SIEDS Societa' Italiana di Economia Demografia e Statistica, vol. 70(4), pages 147-158, October-D.
    • Handle: RePEc:ite:iteeco:160406
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    1. Sieds, 2018. "Complete Volume LXXII n. 2 2018," RIEDS - Rivista Italiana di Economia, Demografia e Statistica - The Italian Journal of Economic, Demographic and Statistical Studies, SIEDS Societa' Italiana di Economia Demografia e Statistica, vol. 72(2), pages 1-158, April-Jun.

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    Keywords

    Saint Petersburg paradox; St. Petersburg; probability; decision-making; expected value; non-ergodic space; ergodicity; probability model; gambling; risks; game theory; risk assessment; utility function; martingale; dear or no deal; miljoenenjacht; affari tuoi; betting; learning from failure; Bernoulli; Buffon experiment;
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    • C53 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Econometric Modeling - - - Forecasting and Prediction Models; Simulation Methods
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