Axiomatic Utility Theory under Risk : Non-Archimedean Representations and Application to Insurance Economics /

The book consists of three parts: The first part reviews the development in axiomatic utility theory under risk since the axiomatization of expected utility by von Neumann and Morgenstein. The second part explores some approaches to represent preferences which exhibit boundary effects. The third par...

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Main Author: Schmidt, Ulrich
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 1998.
Series:Lecture notes in economics and mathematical systems ; 461.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • A Survey
  • Non-Archimedian Representations
  • Application to Insurance Economics.