Non-Expected Utility and Risk Management

A Special Issue of the Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance Theory
ISBN:
9789048157990
Auflage:
Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 1995
Verlag:
Springer, Springer Netherland
Land des Verlags:
Deutschland
Erscheinungsdatum:
05.12.2010
Format:
Softcover
Seitenanzahl:
150
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109,99EUR (inkl. MwSt. zzgl. Versand)
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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.