This review considers two explanations for behavioral decision-making in reference to the certainty and framing effects. The findings from various paradigms such as a single questionnaire, gambles with repetition, and gambles guided by feedback are explained either by prospect theory or by...

Most economic models are prescriptive and based on expected utility theory. Decisions taken on the basis of these models ought to be completely rational and consistent with axioms of the expected utility theory. Prospect theory (PT) is an alternative theory of choice under risk and increasingly...

El artículo discute la exposición de Santiago y Cante (2009) de la teoría de la decisión racional (TDR) y el modelo de utilidad esperada y controvierte su afirmación de acuerdo con la cual la Prospect Theory (PT) de Kahneman y Tversky pone en riesgo el estatus normativo de la TDR. Para ello...

This study measures risk and loss aversion using Prospect Theory and examines the impact of emotions on these parameters. Students’ emotions were manipulated using information on rising deaths due to drug violence in Mexico and youth unemployment and Tanaka et al. (2010) methodology was...

We report results from experimental first-price, sealed-bid, all-pay auctions for a good with a common and known value. We observe bidding strategies in groups of two and three bidders and under two extreme information conditions. As predicted by the Nash equilibrium, subjects use mixed...