Blavatskyy (2006) formulated a game of chance based on the harmonic series which, he suggests, leads to a St Petersburg type of paradox. In view of the importance of the St Petersburg game to decision theory, any game which leads to a St Petersburg type paradox is of interest. Blavatskyy’s...

In this classroom exercise, instructors use the NCAA basketball tournament to help teach important concepts in auction theory, risk management, and portfolio theory. Students represent different athletic apparel companies vying for the sponsorship rights to NCAA tournament teams. Each NCAA team...

Nover and Hájek (2004) suggested a variant of the St Petersburg game which they dubbed the Pasadena game. They hold that their game ‘is more paradoxical than the St Petersburg game in several aspects’. The purpose of this article is to demonstrate theoretically and to validate by...