Document de travail
Risk and Choice: A Research Saga
Christian Gollier, James K. Hammitt et Nicolas Treich
IDEI Working Paper
n° 804, juillet 2013
Référence
Christian Gollier, James K. Hammitt et Nicolas Treich, « Risk and Choice: A Research Saga », IDEI Working Paper, n° 804, juillet 2013.
Résumé
As in any research field, risk theory has its important questions, results, and paradoxes, as well as its seminal papers and key authors. Louis Eeckhoudt has been a key author in the field of risk theory. To celebrate his many contributions and continue the development of theories of decision making under risk, the Toulouse School of Economics hosted “Risk and choice: A conference in honor of Louis Eeckhoudt” July 12- 13, 2012. This paper presents some of Eeckhoudt’s main contributions to the literature, and provides some illustrations of the remarkable research saga in risk theory over the last 50 years since Pratt’s (1964) characterization of risk aversion under expected utility.
Mots-clés
Risk aversion; prudence; risk; self-protection; insurance; portfolio choice; expected utility;
Codes JEL
- D81: Criteria for Decision-Making under Risk and Uncertainty
Remplacé par
Christian Gollier, James K. Hammitt et Nicolas Treich, « Risk and choice: A research saga », Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, vol. 47, n° 2, octobre 2013, p. 129–145.