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Risk Aversion

Risk Aversion is a preference relation in decision theory and insurance economics characterized by the tendency of individuals to prefer a certain outcome over a risky prospect with an equal or higher expected value, reflecting a concave utility function under expected utility theory.

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Prospect Theory: An Analysis of Decision under Risk

Daniel Kahneman, Amos Tversky · Econometrica · 1979 · 47K citations

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The Market for "Lemons": Quality Uncertainty and the Market Mechanism

George A. Akerlof · The Quarterly Journal of Economics · 1970 · 22.6K citations

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Risk, Return, and Equilibrium: Empirical Tests

Eugene F. Fama, James D. MacBeth · Journal of Political Economy · 1973 · 15.1K citations

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Nudge: improving decisions about health, wealth, and happiness

Choice Reviews Online · 2008 · 11.8K citations

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Investment Under Uncertainty.

Eduardo S. Schwartz, Avinash Dixit, Robert S. Pindyck · The Journal of Finance · 1994 · 9.9K citations

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  1. CG
    Christian Gollier

    Toulouse School of Economics, France

    52 publications · 4.3K citations

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  2. LE
    Louis Eeckhoudt

    University of Mons, Belgium

    46 publications · 3.6K citations

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    Glenn W. Harrison

    Georgia State University, United States

    36 publications · 3.3K citations

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    Harris Schlesinger

    University of Alabama, United States

    31 publications · 3.3K citations

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  5. WW
    Wing‐Keung Wong

    Asia University, Taiwan

    31 publications · 1.2K citations

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Institutions

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  1. National Bureau of Economic Research

    Cambridge, United States

    95 h-index

    528 publications

    71.9K citations

  2. University of Chicago

    Chicago, United States

    82 h-index

    232 publications

    47.1K citations

  3. University of Pennsylvania

    Philadelphia, United States

    71 h-index

    240 publications

    36.6K citations

  4. Columbia University

    New York, United States

    68 h-index

    213 publications

    23.4K citations

  5. University of California, Berkeley

    Berkeley, United States

    68 h-index

    201 publications

    35.1K citations

  6. Stanford University

    Stanford, United States

    64 h-index

    188 publications

    36.5K citations

  7. Duke University

    Durham, United States

    63 h-index

    210 publications

    27.2K citations

  8. New York University

    New York, United States

    62 h-index

    228 publications

    18.3K citations

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  1. American Economic Review

    173 publications · 44.6K citations

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  2. SSRN Electronic Journal

    Repository · 1.1K publications · 44.8K citations

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  3. The Journal of Finance

    222 publications · 66.5K citations

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  4. Management Science

    201 publications · 23.7K citations

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  5. Journal of Financial Economics

    126 publications · 28K citations

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