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Risk Attitudes and Decision Weights

Tversky, Amos, Wakker, Peter·1995·Econometrica
DOI 10.2307/2171769
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To accommodate the observed pattern of risk-aversion and risk-seeking, as well as common violations of expected utility (e.g., the certainty effect), we introduce and characterize a weighting function according to which an event has greater impact when it turns impossibility into possibility, or possibility into certainty, than when it merely makes a possibility more or less likely. We show how to compare such weighting functions (of different individuals) with respect to the degree of departure from expected utility, and we present a method for comparing an individual's weighting functions for risk and for uncertainty.

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Authors
Tversky, A., & Wakker, P.
Venue
Econometrica
Publisher
JSTOR
Published
1995-11
Volume
63
Issue
6
Pages
1255
ISSN
0012-9682
DOI
10.2307/2171769
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W2120947277
Cited by
569
References
5
FWCI
7.72
Type
journal article
Language
en
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