Models of risk preferences : descriptive and normative challenges

• Other Authors: Harrison, Glenn W., (Editor), Ross, Don, (Editor)
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Bingley, U.K. : Emerald Publishing Limited, 2023.
• Series: Research in experimental economics ; v. 22.
• Subjects: Risk > Psychological aspects.; Risk > Mathematical models.; Utility theory > Mathematical models.; Business & Economics > Insurance / Risk Assessment & Management.; Risk assessment.; elektronické knihy; electronic books
• ISBN: 9781837972708
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (264 pages).

Behavioural economists have developed alternatives to Expected Utility Theory as descriptive and normative models of risk preferences. One popular view is that these alternative descriptive models are generally better descriptively, but that they tend to be inferior normative models for guiding risk...