Decisions in Economics and Finance,

Special Issue on

“The Mathematics of Subjective Probability”

The subjective approach to probability has historically had great importance in the comprehension of uncertainty phenomena, as witnessed by the works of de Finetti, Dubins, Savage and of too many other scholars to mention explicitly.

Although the axiomatic setting introduced by Kolmogorov is more popular, subjective probability has revealed to be a thriving field of research even in recent years. Roughly speaking, the subjective approach is common to all those problems where probability is not taken as an assumption, but rather as a part of the solution.

Decisions in Economics and Finance, serving as the official publication vehicle of the (Italian) Association for Mathematics Applied to Social and Economic Sciences (AMASES), provides a specialized forum for the publication of research in all areas of mathematics that are applied to economics, finance, insurance, management, and the social sciences. The focus is especially on original research exploring topics in mathematics or computational techniques that are explicitly motivated by or contribute to the analysis of economic or financial problems.

The journal is thus now inviting contributions to the special issue on The Mathematics of Subjective Probability. This special issue is a follow-up of the workshop:

The Mathematics of Subjective Probability,

Milan, 3-5 September 2018,

https://sites.google.com/view/MSP-2018

but with an open call for new contributions

All papers related to the subjective approach to probability, as (tentatively) sketched above, are welcome. The submitted papers are expected to have a mathematical content. An (incomplete) list of topics is

· Ambiguity

· Bayesian statistics

· Coherence

· Conditioning

· Decision models under risk and uncertainty

· Equivalent martingale measures

· Finitely additive probabilities

· Gambling

· Game Theory

· Limit theorems

· Mass transportation

· Merging of opinions

· Multiple priors

· Partial knowledge

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Guest Editors:

Gianluca Cassese (Università di Milano “Bicocca”) gianluca.cassese@unimib.it

Itzhak Gilboa (Tel Aviv University) igilboa@post.tau.ac.il

Rajeeva Karandikar (Chennai Mathematical Institute) rlk@cmi.ac.in

Pietro Rigo (Università di Pavia) pietro.rigo@unipv.it

Barbara Vantaggi (Università di Roma “La Sapienza”) barbara.vantaggi@sbai.uniroma1.it

Important Dates: Submission deadline for full papers: February 28, 2019

Manuscript Submission

Submitted papers should be original works and should not have been previously published nor be currently under consideration for publication elsewhere. The manuscripts should be prepared in keeping with the Instructions for Authors provided on the Decisions in Economics and Finance homepage:

http://www.springer.com/economics/economic+theory/journal/10203

The length of the paper should not exceed 40 pages, when compiled in accordance with the Instructions for Authors. Longer papers will be considered only in exceptional situations.

All manuscripts should be submitted electronically using the journal’s online manuscript submission system at:

https://www.editorialmanager.com/deaf/default.aspx

Authors: please select “Special issue on The Mathematics of Subjective Probability” when you reach the “Select Article Type” step in the submission process.

Refereeing Process

Papers will be subject to a strict review process managed by the Guest Editors. Accepted papers will be published online individually, before print publication. All inquiries concerning the submission to the special issue will be addressed directly by the Guest Editors.