utility" theory of investor behavior, which posits that people derive utility directly from the act of realizing gains and … exhibit a strong disposition effect in their trading, even though it is suboptimal. Consistent with the realization utility … options during choices, correlates with the capital gains of potential trades; that the neural measures of realization utility …

Risk and time are intertwined. The present is known while the future is inherently risky. Discounted expected utility … robust violations of discounted expected utility, inconsistent with both prospect theory probability weighting and models …

to estimate random utility models, as if they are data on actual choices. Stated choices may differ from actual ones …. This paper shows how to use elicited choice probabilities to estimate random utility models with random coefficients and …

-pecuniary component of utility associated with each choice alternative. Previous work has found that, without parametric restrictions or …-pecuniary component of utility associated with each choice alternative. We develop nonparametric estimators corresponding to two …

expected utility (GEU) to the diversification of agents who maximize the conventional expected utility (EU). Specifically, we … derive the patterns of diversification for agents who maximize a rank-dependent' expected utility, attaching more weight to … bad' than to good' outcomes, in contrast to the probability weights used in a conventional expected utility maximization …