Economic and Environmental Risk and Uncertainty: New Models and Methods (Theory and Decision Library B)

Nau, Robert (Editor) / Grønn, Erik (Editor) / Machina, Mark J. (Editor) / Bergland, Olvar (Editor)

ISBN 10: 9048148499 / ISBN 13: 9789048148493

Published by Springer Netherlands, 1997

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284 pages. 9.25x6.10x0.64 inches. In Stock.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Economic and Environmental Risk and Uncertainty: New Models and Methods (Theory and Decision Library B)
• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Publication Date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9048148499
• ISBN 13: 9789048148493
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Brand New
• Weight: 0.5 kilograms

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Synopsis

The 1980s and 1990s have been a period of exciting new developments in the modelling of decision-making under risk and uncertainty. Extensions of the theory of expected utility and alternative theories of `non-expected utility' have been devised to explain many puzzles and paradoxes of individual and collective choice behaviour. This volume presents some of the best recent work on the modelling of risk and uncertainty, with applications to problems in environmental policy, public health, economics and finance. Eighteen papers by distinguished economists, management scientists, and statisticians shed new light on phenomena such as the Allais and St. Petersburg paradoxes, the equity premium puzzle, the demand for insurance, the valuation of public health and safety, and environmental goods.
Audience: This work will be of interest to economists, management scientists, risk and policy analysts, and others who study risky decision-making in economic and environmental contexts.