According to the behavioral finance theory, agents act coherently with the Kahneman and Tversky prospect paradigms and may violate those dictated by the rational expected utility. From the point of view of real financial markets' applications, a key question concerns how to eliciting the...

According to the target-oriented decision model (see Castagnoli and Li Calzi,1996 and Bordley and Li Calzi, 2000) the individual agent cardinal utility can be simply elicited by assessing the (random) goal the agent wishes to meet. The use of the target-oriented language to design risk...