Despite many applications of prospect theory's concepts to explain political and strategic phenomena, formal analyses of strategic problems using prospect theory are rare. Using Fearon's model of bargaining, Tversky and Kahneman's value function, and an existing probability weighting function, I...

(paper is in Dutch) This study surveys the behavioural finance literature. It discusses both the literature that incorporates behavioural considerations into rational models, and the literature that concentrates on the role of prospect theory and the effect of cognitive-psychological mechanisms...

В статье представлены основы теории поведенческих финансов, главной из которых является теория перспектив Д. Канемана и А. Тверски, определены предпосылки ее...

According to John Searle's theory of human ontology, intentional mental states such as beliefs and wants rely on non-intentional, Background, dispositions to produce rational behaviour. The distinction between intentional and non-intentional states is used as the basis on which to understand the...

The findings of behavioural economics can help guide public policy, particularly regulatory design. While behavioural economics has only recently arisen as a defined discipline, many long-established regulations employed by governments are found to be consistent with the findings of behavioural...

This paper gives a survey over a common aspect of prospect theory that occurred to be of importance in a series of recent papers developed by Enrico De Giorgi, Thorsten Hens, Janos Mayer, Haim Levy, Thierry Post, Marc Oliver Rieger and Mei Wang. The common aspect of these papers is that the...

This dissertation studies two interesting business cycle issues. Thefirst issue concerns the effectiveness of tax policies in stimulatingan economic recovery. The second issue concerns the costs ofbusiness cycle fluctuations to an investor who chooses to invest inrisky assets. The first essay...