• Media type: E-Book
  • Title: Handbook of the economics of risk and uncertainty : volume 1
  • Other titles: 1. Axiomatic foundations of expected utility and subjective probability
    3. The theory of risk and risk aversion
    4. Assessment and estimation of risk preferences
    5. Insurance and insurance markets
    6. Uncertainty and imperfect information in markets
    7. The value of individual and societal risks to life and health
    8. Economic analysis of risk and uncertainty induced by health shocks : a review and extension
    9. Regulating occupational and product risks
    10. Environmental risk and uncertainty
    11. Economics of natural catastrophe risk insurance
    12. Non-expected utility models under objective uncertainty
    13. Ambiguity and ambiguity aversion
    14. Choice under uncertainty : empirical methods and experimental results
  • Contains: 1. Axiomatic foundations of expected utility and subjective probability / Edi Karni2. Rationality and dynamic consistency under risk and uncertainty / Peter J. Hammond and Horst Zank
    3. The theory of risk and risk aversion / Jack Meyer
    4. Assessment and estimation of risk preferences / Charles A. Holt and Susan K. Laury
    5. Insurance and insurance markets / Georges Dionne and Scott E. Harrington
    6. Uncertainty and imperfect information in markets / Benjamin E. Hermalin
    7. The value of individual and societal risks to life and health / W. Kip Viscusi
    8. Economic analysis of risk and uncertainty induced by health shocks : a review and extension / Tomas J. Philipson and George Zanjani
    9. Regulating occupational and product risks / Thomas J. Kniesner and John D. Leeth
    10. Environmental risk and uncertainty / Joseph E. Aldy and W. Kip Viscusi
    11. Economics of natural catastrophe risk insurance / Howard Kunreuther and Erwann Michel-Kerjan
    12. Non-expected utility models under objective uncertainty / John Quiggin
    13. Ambiguity and ambiguity aversion / Mark J. Machina and Marciano Siniscalchi
    14. Choice under uncertainty : empirical methods and experimental results / John D. Hey.
  • Contributor: Machina, Mark J. [Other]; Viscusi, W. Kip [Other]
  • imprint: Amsterdam; Heidelberg [u.a.]: Elsevier, North-Holland, 2014
  • Published in: Handbooks in economics
  • Issue: First edition
  • Extent: Online Ressource (xxxv, 860 pages); illustrations (some color)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN: 9780444536860; 0444536868
  • RVK notation: QP 300 : Allgemeines
  • Keywords: Risikotheorie > Risikoverhalten > Unsicherheit > Entscheidung bei Unsicherheit > Asymmetrische Information
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  • Footnote: Includes bibliographical references and index
  • Description: Detailed surveys examine risk and uncertainty, from classical and foundational work through current developments. Presents coherent summaries of risk and uncertainty that inform major areas in economics and finance