Prospect theory and the "forgotten" fourfold pattern of risk preferences

Journal of Risk and Uncertainty

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 67-83

  Scholten, Marc ^a   Read, Daniel ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDADE EUROPEIA   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Fourfold patterns of risk preferences; Gains; Losses; Markowitz; Prospect theory; Risk aversion; Risk seeking

Indexed keywords

EID: 84892474188     PISSN: 08955646     EISSN: 15730476     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11166-014-9183-2     Document Type: Article

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