Non-Expected Utility and Risk Management

Christian Gollier

• 30 september 1995
• 9780792396420

Samenvatting:

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.



Expected utility provides simple, testable properties of the optimum behaviour 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 behaviour. A more realistic model is needed. This is particularly true when treating attitudes toward small probability events: the standard situation for insurable risks. This book examines whether the existing results in insurance economics are robust to more general models of behaviour under risk.