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Title: Deciding with judgment Authors:  Simone Manganelli - European Central Bank (Germany) [presenting]
Abstract: Non sample information is hidden in frequentist statistics in the choice of the hypothesis to be tested and of the confidence level. Explicit treatment of these elements provides the connection between Bayesian and frequentist statistics. A frequentist decision maker starts from a judgmental decision (the decision taken in the absence of data) and moves to the closest boundary of the confidence interval of the first order conditions, for a given loss function. This statistical decision rule does not perform worse than the judgmental decision with a probability equal to the confidence level. For any given prior, there is a mapping from the sample realization to the confidence level which makes Bayesian and frequentist decision rules equivalent. An application to a portfolio choice between cash and the EuroStoxx50 index illustrates the practical advantages of frequentist decision rules.