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Probability and risk: Foundations and economicimplications of probability-dependent risk preferences

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2012
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Fehr-Duda, H., & Epper, T. (2012). Probability and risk: Foundations and economicimplications of probability-dependent risk preferences. Annual Review of Economics, 4, 567–593. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-economics-080511-110950

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Probability weighting has been largely ignored by economics despite abundant evidence that riskattitudes are in fact probability dependent. Probability weighting, however, provides a unifyingaccount of many real-world phenomena that are diffcult to reconcile with expected utility theory,such as the equity premium puzzle, the long-shot bias in betting markets, households'underdiversification and their willingness to buy small-scale insurance at exorbitant prices. Recentfindings suggest that probability dependence is not just a feature

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  • Fehr-Duda, Helga
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  • Epper, Thomas
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4

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1

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567

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593

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Discipline-based scholarship (basic research)

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English

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2012-01-01

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2012-06-14

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1941-1383

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merlin-id:7056, Annu. Rev. Econ. 2012. 4:19.1–19.27

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Fehr-Duda, H., & Epper, T. (2012). Probability and risk: Foundations and economicimplications of probability-dependent risk preferences. Annual Review of Economics, 4, 567–593. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-economics-080511-110950

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