Non-Expected Utility and Risk Management: A Special Issue of the Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance Theory

ISBN-13: 9789048157990 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 150 str.

Christian Gollier;Mark J. Machina

Opis

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.

Spis treści

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.