Decision-Making under Uncertainty
β Scribed by Tapan Biswas (auth.)
- Publisher
- Macmillan Education UK
- Year
- 1997
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 225
- Category
- Library
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β¦ Table of Contents
Front Matter....Pages i-xiv
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
The Expected Utility Theory....Pages 3-18
Risk Aversion....Pages 19-29
The Insurance Market....Pages 30-43
Stochastic Dominance and Risk Comparisons....Pages 44-53
Non-Expected Utility Theories....Pages 54-72
Portfolio Analysis and the Mean-Variance Utility Theory....Pages 73-90
Efficient Contracts under Uncertainty: The Principal-Agent Theory....Pages 91-105
Collective Decisions under Uncertainty....Pages 106-116
Front Matter....Pages 117-117
An Introduction to the Theory of Games....Pages 119-130
Non-Cooperative Game Theory....Pages 131-142
Selected Topics in Non-Cooperative Game Theory....Pages 143-157
Games and Collective Decisions....Pages 158-173
Evolutions and Games....Pages 174-184
Games against Nature and the Role of Information in Decision-Making under Uncertainty....Pages 185-196
Back Matter....Pages 197-215
β¦ Subjects
Economic Theory/Quantitative Economics/Mathematical Methods; Microeconomics; Operation Research/Decision Theory
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