Loss Aversion and Ruinous Optimal Wagering in the Markowitz Model of Non-Expected Utility

David Peel and David Law ()
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Economics Bulletin, 2016, vol. 36, issue 2, 688-695

Abstract: The purpose in this note is to demonstrate that the non-expected utility model of Markowitz implies that agents can obtain maximum expected utility from wagering all of their wealth on actuarialy unfair high probability outcomes. In order to remove this property it is necessary to assume that loss aversion tends to infinity as stake size as a proportion of wealth approaches unity.

Keywords: Markowitz Model of Utility; Loss Aversion; Stake as a Proportion of Wealth (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D8 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016-04-14
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