Prospect Theory: Decoding Choice, a Journey into Prospect Theory

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What is Prospect Theory

Prospect theory is a theory of behavioral economics, judgment, and decision making that was established by Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky in 1979. Prospect theory was named after the aforementioned scholars. The theory was taken into consideration when Kahneman was selected to receive the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics in the year 2002.


How you will benefit


(I) Insights, and validations about the following topics:


Chapter 1: Prospect theory


Chapter 2: Behavioral economics


Chapter 3: Risk aversion


Chapter 4: Decision theory


Chapter 5: Loss aversion


Chapter 6: Expected utility hypothesis


Chapter 7: Mental accounting


Chapter 8: Allais paradox


Chapter 9: Stochastic dominance


Chapter 10: Cumulative prospect theory


Chapter 11: Merton's portfolio problem


Chapter 12: Rank-dependent expected utility


Chapter 13: Lévy-Prokhorov metric


Chapter 14: Choquet integral


Chapter 15: Von Neumann-Morgenstern utility theorem


Chapter 16: Certainty effect


Chapter 17: End-of-the-day betting effect


Chapter 18: Mean-field game theory


Chapter 19: Risk aversion (psychology)


Chapter 20: Priority heuristic


Chapter 21: Uncertainty effect


(II) Answering the public top questions about prospect theory.


(III) Real world examples for the usage of prospect theory in many fields.


Who this book is for


Professionals, undergraduate and graduate students, enthusiasts, hobbyists, and those who want to go beyond basic knowledge or information for any kind of Prospect Theory.

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