Stocks as Lotteries: The Implications of Probability Weighting for Security Prices
Preprint
- 1 January 2005
- preprint
- Published by Elsevier BV in SSRN Electronic Journal
Abstract
We study the asset pricing implications of Tversky and Kahneman's (1992) cumulative prospect theory, with particular focus on its probability weighting componenKeywords
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