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Book SynopsisBehavioural economists have developed alternatives to Expected Utility Theory as descriptive and normative models of risk preferences. One popular view is that these alternative descriptive models are generally better descriptively, but that they tend to be inferior normative models for guiding risky decisions. Models of Risk Preferences collects studies that critically review these two claims from the perspective of experimental economics.
The Research in Experimental Economics series focuses on laboratory experimental economics, but includes theoretical, empirical, or field economic research to encompass the broader experimental economics community.
Table of ContentsIntroduction; Glenn W. Harrison and Don Ross
Chapter 1. Behavioral Welfare Economics and the Quantitative Intentional Stance; Glenn W. Harrison and Don Ross
Chapter 2. Unusual Estimates of Probability Weighting Functions; Nathaniel T. Wilcox
Chapter 3. Cumulative Prospect Theory in the Laboratory: A Reconsideration; Glenn W. Harrison and J. Todd Swarthout
Chapter 4. Temporal Stability of Cumulative Prospect Theory; Morten I. Lau, Hong Il Yoo, and Hongming Zhao
Chapter 5. The Welfare Consequences of Individual-Level Risk Preference Estimation; Brian Albert Monroe
