Gollier / Machina Non-Expected Utility and Risk Management

A Special Issue of the Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance Theory
1995
ISBN: 978-94-017-2440-1
Verlag: Springer Netherland
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 150 Seiten, eBook

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.
examines whether the existing results in insurance economics are robust to more general models of behavior under risk.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gollier, Christian

Machina, Mark J.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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.