Threshold Theory – modelling risk attitude

Kasprowicz Tomasz () and Bednorz Andrzej ()
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Kasprowicz Tomasz: The University of Dąbrowa Górnicza
Bednorz Andrzej: The University of Dąbrowa Górnicza

Financial Internet Quarterly (formerly e-Finanse), 2017, vol. 13, issue 4, 97-109

Abstract: In this paper we offer an alternative framework for examining why risk matters in the decisions of economic agents, and how the agent’s risk attitude affects his decisions. This “Threshold Theory” framework is based on a real options approach and the observation that in many situations an agent faces one or more thresholds in the payoff function. These thresholds influence the agent’s risk attitude. The theory’s predictions help to explain many anomalies that the standard expected utility model cannot. Threshold Theory can also model behavior in contexts such as individual investor decisions, corporate governance and other agency problems. Further, we examine CEO decisions as a function of time to the CEO’s retirement to test predictions of the Theory.

Keywords: Decision-making under uncertainty; real options; agency theory; CEO behavior (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D01 G31 M15 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1515/fiqf-2016-0039

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