Averting risk in the face of large losses: Bernoulli vs. Tversky and Kahneman

Economics Letters

Volumn 107, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 180-182

  Bosch Domènech, Antoni ^a   Silvestre, Joaquim ^b  

^a UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bernoulli; Experiments; Kahneman; Losses; Prospect theory; Risk Attraction; Risk aversion; Tversky

Indexed keywords

EID: 77950953723     PISSN: 01651765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2010.01.018     Document Type: Article

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