 Teorie očekávaného užitku versus kumulativní prospektová teorie: empirický pohled (available in Czech only)Czech Economic Review, 2007, vol. 1, issue 2, 180-195 Abstract: This paper pits expected utility theory and cumulative prospect theory against each other as regards their descriptive accuracy. Some older as well as newer pieces of evidence are described which show that under certain circumstances, expected utility theory is not descriptively valid. The most promising alternative, cumulative prospect theory, is then presented in some detail, including a brief discussion of how it avoids violations of stochastic dominance and how it explains the above evidence. It is pointed out that there are other empirical observations which cannot be explained by cumulative prospect theory either. It is concluded that expected utility theory is likeyl to remain the core instrument for modeling human decision-making under risk at least in the near future. Keywords: expected utility theory; cumulative prospect theory; decision making under risk; economic experiments; weighting function; value function; rank-dependent decision making; reference-dependent decision making (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:fau:aucocz:au2007_180 Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from Access Statistics for this article More articles in Czech Economic Review from Charles University Prague, Faculty of Social Sciences, Institute of Economic Studies Contact information at EDIRC. |
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