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This paper clarifies the relation between decisions of a risk-averse decision maker, based on expected utility theory on the one hand, and spectral risk measures on the other. We first demonstrate that recent approaches to this problem generally do not provide strongly consistent results, i.e. they fail to induce identical preference orders simultaneously with both concepts. Then we detail the relation...