The Recovery of Risk Preferences from Actual Choices
从实际选择中恢复风险偏好
SINCE ITS INTRODUCTION, the expected utility hypothesis has been widely used in the construction of economic models. More recently, attention has focused on the conditions under which it is possible in principle to recover individual investors' risk preferences from their demand for assets (Dybvig and Polemarchakis [2]). This paper represents a first attempt to recover preferences operationally from data on the actual demand for assets. Numerous difficulties are encountered…