Risk Attitudes and Risk Dominance in the Long Run


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2019-07

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Journal Article

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Abstract

This paper investigates the role that risk attitudes play in the evolution of conventions in the long run. Risk aversion is shown to be associated with the evolution of maximin conventions, and risk seeking with the evolution of payoff dominant conventions.

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published

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116

Pages / Article No.

179 - 184

Publisher

Elsevier

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Subject

Evolution; conventions; risk attitudes; loss aversion; concave utility; state dependence

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03784 - Helbing, Dirk / Helbing, Dirk check_circle

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324247 - Modeling the Emergence of Social Complexity and Order: How Individual and Societal Complexity Co-Evolve (EC)

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