A parametric analysis of prospect theory's functionals for the general population

Theory and Decision

Volumn 68, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 115-148

  Booij, Adam S ^a   Van Praag, Bernard M S ^b   Van De Kuilen, Gijs ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b TINBERGEN INSTITUTE   (Netherlands)

^c TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Loss aversion; Prospect theory; Subjective probability weighting; Utility for gains and losses

Indexed keywords

COMMON FINDINGS; EXPECTED UTILITY; FUNCTIONALS; GENDER DIFFERENCES; GENERAL POPULATION; GENERAL PUBLICS; LOSS AVERSION; PARAMETRIC ANALYSIS; PROBABILITY WEIGHTING; PROSPECT THEORY; PSYCHOLOGICAL RESPONSE; REPRESENTATIVE SAMPLE; RISK ATTITUDE; RISK AVERSE; S SHAPE; SUBJECTIVE PROBABILITY; SUBJECTIVE PROBABILITY WEIGHTING; UTILITY FUNCTIONS;

PROBABILITY;

EID: 74849112432     PISSN: 00405833     EISSN: 15737187     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11238-009-9144-4     Document Type: Article

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