Prospect Theory
Title | Prospect Theory PDF eBook |
Author | Peter P. Wakker |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 519 |
Release | 2010-07-22 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 1139489100 |
Prospect Theory: For Risk and Ambiguity, provides a comprehensive and accessible textbook treatment of the way decisions are made both when we have the statistical probabilities associated with uncertain future events (risk) and when we lack them (ambiguity). The book presents models, primarily prospect theory, that are both tractable and psychologically realistic. A method of presentation is chosen that makes the empirical meaning of each theoretical model completely transparent. Prospect theory has many applications in a wide variety of disciplines. The material in the book has been carefully organized to allow readers to select pathways through the book relevant to their own interests. With numerous exercises and worked examples, the book is ideally suited to the needs of students taking courses in decision theory in economics, mathematics, finance, psychology, management science, health, computer science, Bayesian statistics, and engineering.
Prospect Theory
Title | Prospect Theory PDF eBook |
Author | Daniel Kahneman |
Publisher | |
Pages | 27 |
Release | 1979 |
Genre | Utility theory |
ISBN |
Handbook of the Fundamentals of Financial Decision Making
Title | Handbook of the Fundamentals of Financial Decision Making PDF eBook |
Author | Leonard C. MacLean |
Publisher | World Scientific |
Pages | 941 |
Release | 2013 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 9814417351 |
This handbook in two parts covers key topics of the theory of financial decision making. Some of the papers discuss real applications or case studies as well. There are a number of new papers that have never been published before especially in Part II.Part I is concerned with Decision Making Under Uncertainty. This includes subsections on Arbitrage, Utility Theory, Risk Aversion and Static Portfolio Theory, and Stochastic Dominance. Part II is concerned with Dynamic Modeling that is the transition for static decision making to multiperiod decision making. The analysis starts with Risk Measures and then discusses Dynamic Portfolio Theory, Tactical Asset Allocation and Asset-Liability Management Using Utility and Goal Based Consumption-Investment Decision Models.A comprehensive set of problems both computational and review and mind expanding with many unsolved problems are in an accompanying problems book. The handbook plus the book of problems form a very strong set of materials for PhD and Masters courses both as the main or as supplementary text in finance theory, financial decision making and portfolio theory. For researchers, it is a valuable resource being an up to date treatment of topics in the classic books on these topics by Johnathan Ingersoll in 1988, and William Ziemba and Raymond Vickson in 1975 (updated 2 nd edition published in 2006).
Avoiding Losses/taking Risks
Title | Avoiding Losses/taking Risks PDF eBook |
Author | Barbara Farnham |
Publisher | University of Michigan Press |
Pages | 180 |
Release | 1994 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 9780472082766 |
The impact of prospect theory on international relations theory
Risk-Taking in International Politics
Title | Risk-Taking in International Politics PDF eBook |
Author | Rose McDermott |
Publisher | University of Michigan Press |
Pages | 256 |
Release | 2001 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 9780472087877 |
Discusses the way leaders deal with risk in making foreign policy decisions
Thinking, Fast and Slow
Title | Thinking, Fast and Slow PDF eBook |
Author | Daniel Kahneman |
Publisher | Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
Pages | 511 |
Release | 2011-10-25 |
Genre | Psychology |
ISBN | 1429969350 |
Major New York Times bestseller Winner of the National Academy of Sciences Best Book Award in 2012 Selected by the New York Times Book Review as one of the ten best books of 2011 A Globe and Mail Best Books of the Year 2011 Title One of The Economist's 2011 Books of the Year One of The Wall Street Journal's Best Nonfiction Books of the Year 2011 2013 Presidential Medal of Freedom Recipient Kahneman's work with Amos Tversky is the subject of Michael Lewis's The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds In his mega bestseller, Thinking, Fast and Slow, Daniel Kahneman, the renowned psychologist and winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics, takes us on a groundbreaking tour of the mind and explains the two systems that drive the way we think. System 1 is fast, intuitive, and emotional; System 2 is slower, more deliberative, and more logical. The impact of overconfidence on corporate strategies, the difficulties of predicting what will make us happy in the future, the profound effect of cognitive biases on everything from playing the stock market to planning our next vacation—each of these can be understood only by knowing how the two systems shape our judgments and decisions. Engaging the reader in a lively conversation about how we think, Kahneman reveals where we can and cannot trust our intuitions and how we can tap into the benefits of slow thinking. He offers practical and enlightening insights into how choices are made in both our business and our personal lives—and how we can use different techniques to guard against the mental glitches that often get us into trouble. Winner of the National Academy of Sciences Best Book Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and selected by The New York Times Book Review as one of the ten best books of 2011, Thinking, Fast and Slow is destined to be a classic.
Decision, Probability and Utility
Title | Decision, Probability and Utility PDF eBook |
Author | Peter Gärdenfors |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 464 |
Release | 1988-04-29 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 9780521336581 |
Decision theory and the theory of rational choice have recently been the subjects of considerable research by philosophers and economists. However, no adequate anthology exists which can be used to introduce students to the field. This volume is designed to meet that need. The essays included are organized into five parts covering the foundations of decision theory, the conceptualization of probability and utility, pholosophical difficulties with the rules of rationality and with the assessment of probability, and causal decision theory. The editors provide an extensive introduction to the field and introductions to each part.