Non-expected utility and risk management : a special issue of the Geneva papers on risk and insurance theory

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Non-expected utility and risk management : a special issue of the Geneva papers on risk and insurance theory

edited by Christian Gollier and Mark Machina

Kluwer Academic Publishers, c1995

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Geneva papers on risk and insurance theory

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"Reprinted from the Geneva papers on risk and insurance theory, volume 20, number 1."

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Expected utility provides simple, testable properties of the optimum behavior that should be displayed by risk-averse individuals in risky decisions. Simultaneously, given the existence of paradoxes under the expected utility paradigm, expected utility can only be regarded as an approximation of actual behavior. A more realistic model is needed. This is particularly true when treating attitudes toward small probability events: the standard situation for insurable risks. Non-Expected Utility and Risk Management examines whether the existing results in insurance economics are robust to more general models of behavior under risk.

Table of Contents

  • Editor' Note. Introductory Note
  • C. Gollier. Non-Expected Utility and the Robustness of the Classical Insurance Paradigm
  • M.J. Machina. Non-Expected Utility and the Robustness of the Classical Insurance Paradigm: Discussion
  • E. Karni. The Comparative Statics of Deductible Insurance in Expected and Non-expected Utility Theories
  • E.E. Schlee. Risk Aversion Concepts in Expected and Non- expected Utility Models
  • M. Cohen. Government Action, Biases in Risk Perception, and Insurance Decisions
  • W.K. Viscusi. A Comparison of the Estimates of EU and non-EU Preference Functionals Using Data from Pairwise Choice and Complete Ranking Experiments
  • E. Carbone, J.D. Hey. Functional Form Problems in Modelling Insurance and Gambling
  • W.E. Diewert.

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  • NCID
    BA28179286
  • ISBN
    • 0792396421
  • LCCN
    95020669
  • Country Code
    us
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    Boston ; Dordrecht ; London
  • Pages/Volumes
    150 p.
  • Size
    25 cm
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