-Preface -- I. Behavioral Decision Theory and the Idea of It -- Chapter 1. Decision-making Phenomenon and Behavioral Decision Theory -- Chapter 2. Preference and Preference Structure -- II. Preference Reversal Phenomenon and Description of the Phenomenon -- Chapter 3. Ordinal Utility and...

We use probability-matching variations on Ellsberg’s single-urn experiment to assess three questions: (1) How sensitive are ambiguity attitudes to changes from a gain to a loss frame? (2) How sensitive are ambiguity attitudes to making ambiguity easier to recognize? (3) What is the relation...

Prospect theory, widely used descriptively for decisions under both risk and certainty, presumes concave utility over “gains” and convex utility over “losses”; a pattern widely seen in lottery tasks. Although such gain-loss asymmetry is also widely used to model riskless choices, limited...

A growing literature reports the conclusions that: (a) expected utility theory does not provide a plausible theory of risk aversion for both small-stakes and large-stakes gambles; and (b) this decision theory should be replaced with an alternative theory characterized by loss aversion. This...

This book provides an overview of behavioral decision theory and related research findings. In brief, behavioral decision theory is a general term for descriptive theories to explain the psychological knowledge related to decision-making behavior. It is called a theory, but actually it is a...

Risk: Is There a Unique Objective Measure? -- Expected Utility Theory -- Stochastic Dominance Decision Rules -- Stochastic Dominance: The Quantile Approach -- Algorithms for Stochastic Dominance -- Stochastic Dominance with Specific Distributions -- Almost Stochastic Dominance (ASD) --...

This updated 3rd edition is devoted to the analysis of various Stochastic Dominance (SD) decision rules. It discusses the pros and cons of each of the alternate SD rules, the application of these rules to various research areas like statistics, agriculture, medicine, measuring income inequality...