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Decisions : risk and reward

โœ Scribed by Johnnie Johnson; Alistair Bruce


Publisher
Routledge
Year
2008
Tongue
English
Leaves
393
Series
Routledge studies in business organization and networks, 44
Category
Library

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โœฆ Table of Contents



Content: Motivation for betting and risk taking --
Toward an explanation of betting as a leisure pursuit --
Costing excitement in leisure betting --
Successful betting strategies : evidence from the UK off-course betting market --
The impact of complexity on decision-making behaviour --
The complex decision : insights from naturalistic research --
An empirical study of the impact of complexity on participation in horserace betting --
A probit model for estimating the effect of complexity on risk taking --
Risk strategy under task complexity : a multivariate analysis of behaviour in a naturalistic setting --
Decision making under risk : effect of complexity on performance --
Gender differences in decision-making behaviour --
Gender and DSS design : the research implications --
Male and female betting behaviour--new perspectives --
Gender-based differences in leisure behaviour : performance, risk-taking and confidence in off-course betting --
Decision-making, risk and gender : are managers different? --
The use of information by decision makers and deviations from rational economic behaviour --
A violation of dominance and the consumption value of gambling --
Exploring decision makers' use of price information in a speculative market --
Gluck's second law : an empirical investigation of horserace betting in early and late races --
Investigating the roots of the favourite-longshot bias : an analysis of decision-making by supply and demand-side agents in parallel betting markets --
Market efficiency analysis requires a sensitivity to market characteristics : some observations on a recent study of betting market efficiency --
Efficiency characteristics of a market for state contingent claims --
Market ecology and decision behaviour in state-contingent claims markets --
Calibration of subjective probability judgements in a naturalistic setting.


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