Ana’s preferences are consistent with expected utility. Denote by u(x) her utility function for a monetary outcome £x, and suppose that she is strictly risk-averse. Ana currently faces the monetary lottery which pays: £A with probability pA; £B with probability pB; and £C with probability pC. Now suppose that Ana is made the following o§er. For each realization of the original lottery, another lottery will be executed according to which she wins an additional pound with probability 1/2 and loses a pound with probability 1/2. Describe th

Ana’s preferences are consistent with expected utility. Denote by u(x) her utility function for a monetary outcome £x, and suppose that she is strictly risk-averse. Ana currently faces the monetary lottery which pays: £A with probability pA; £B with probability pB; and £C with probability pC. Now suppose that Ana is made the following o§er. For each realization of the original lottery, another lottery will be executed according to which she wins an additional pound with probability 1/2 and loses a pound with probability 1/2. Describe th

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Ana’s preferences are consistent with expected utility. Denote by u(x) her utility function for a monetary outcome £x, and suppose that she is strictly risk-averse. Ana currently faces the monetary lottery which pays: £A with probability pA; £B with probability pB; and £C with probability pC. Now suppose that Ana is made the following o§er. For each realization of the original lottery, another lottery will be executed according to which she wins an additional pound
with probability 1/2 and loses a pound with probability 1/2.

Describe the lottery that Ana faces if she accepts the o§er by describing the new payo§s and probabilities over these payo§s.

(b) Show that she rejects the o§er and explain why.

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