Non-Expected Utility and Risk Management A Special Issue of the Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance Theory

Non-Expected Utility and Risk Management A Special Issue of the Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance Theory / edited by Christian Gollier, Mark J. Machina.

Expected utility provides simple, testable properties of the optimum behavior that should be displayed by risk-averse individuals in risky decisions. Simultaneously, given the existence of paradoxes under the expected utility paradigm, expected utility can only be regarded as an approximation of act...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Gollier, Christian (Editor), Machina, Mark J. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 1995.
Edition:1st ed. 1995.
Series:Springer eBook Collection.
Subjects:
Operations research.
Decision making.
Finance.
Economic theory.
Microeconomics.
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Online Access:Click to view e-book
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Summary:Expected utility provides simple, testable properties of the optimum behavior that should be displayed by risk-averse individuals in risky decisions. Simultaneously, given the existence of paradoxes under the expected utility paradigm, expected utility can only be regarded as an approximation of actual behavior. A more realistic model is needed. This is particularly true when treating attitudes toward small probability events: the standard situation for insurable risks. Non-Expected Utility and Risk Management examines whether the existing results in insurance economics are robust to more general models of behavior under risk.
Physical Description:VI, 150 p. online resource.
ISBN:9789401724401
DOI:10.1007/978-94-017-2440-1

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