Ending the myth of the St Petersburg paradox
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Keywords
Central Limit Theorem; deductive logic; inductive logic; Law of Large Numbers; simulation of games; economic paradoxes; St Petersburg game; St Petersburg Paradox;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- C44 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Econometric and Statistical Methods: Special Topics - - - Operations Research; Statistical Decision Theory
- C9 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Design of Experiments
- D81 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Criteria for Decision-Making under Risk and Uncertainty
- N00 - Economic History - - General - - - General
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-HPE-2013-10-18 (History and Philosophy of Economics)
- NEP-MIC-2013-10-18 (Microeconomics)
- NEP-UPT-2013-10-18 (Utility Models and Prospect Theory)
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