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March 12, 2026EconomicaOpen Access

What if the expected is not the most likely outcome? Four examples giving pause for thought and reconsideration

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GAGordon Anderson

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Exploratory analysis reveals implications of using most likely outcomes in economic contexts, highlighting analytical differences.

Key Points

  • The central aim is to explore how choosing expected versus most likely outcomes affects economic analysis.
  • Examined the foundational nature of expectations-based theories and symmetric unimodal assumptions.
  • Characterized the choice of locational focus as an optimization problem.
  • Analyzed various economic modeling scenarios to assess the impact of outcome selection.
  • Demonstrated that expected and most likely outcomes can diverge, especially in asymmetric contexts.
  • Highlighted four distinct modeling scenarios illustrating the importance of locational focus.
  • Revealed that preference for most likely outcomes alters analysis and conclusions significantly.

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Gordon Anderson (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/69b257cd96eeacc4fcec6ca4https://doi.org/10.1111/ecca.70039
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