Decision-making under uncertainty - A field study of cumulative prospect theory

Journal of Banking and Finance

Volumn 33, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1221-1229

  Gurevich, Gregory ^a   Kliger, Doron ^a   Levy, Ori ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

^b Coral Capital Management ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Cumulative prospect theory; Loss aversion; Probability weighting function; Value function

Indexed keywords

EID: 64049094460     PISSN: 03784266     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbankfin.2008.12.017     Document Type: Article

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