Theories of choice under risk: Insights from financial markets

Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization

Volumn 71, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 330-346

  Kliger, Doron ^a   Levy, Ori ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

^b Coral Capital Management ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Cumulative prospect theory; Expected utility; Market data; Rank dependent expected utility

Indexed keywords

EID: 67349153873     PISSN: 01672681     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jebo.2009.01.012     Document Type: Article

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