Moderating Loss Aversion: Loss Aversion Has Moderators, But Reports of its Death are Greatly Exaggerated

Common Methods Bias: Reports of Its Death are Greatly Exaggerated

Psychoanalytic theory "the reports of my death are greatly exaggerated".

Public Agencies are dead. They cannot compete in the current environment. They are in a league with eight track tapes, Beta and Apple home computers. Privatization, the perceived answer to the waste inefficiency and uncaring attitude of bloated bureaucracies, is the current buzzword. The theory most often expressed about public agencies from citizens and politicians is that they can’t be fixed....

Reports of My Death Are Greatly Exaggerated: A Reply

Loss aversion and perceptionally risk aversion

This paper analyzes, for S-shaped value functions, the relations between loss aversion and perceptionally risk aversion (i.e. computed with the perceived probability weights) in Cumulative Prospect Theory . We show that perceptionally risk aversion for mixed sign lotteries is equivalent to weak (or strong) loss aversion, so this is the right assumption to get a sensible behavior towards risk. T...

Myopic Loss Aversion Revisited

In this paper we reexamine several experimental papers on myopic loss aversion by analyzing individual rather than aggregate choice patterns. We find that the behavior of the majority of subjects is inconsistent with the hypothesis of myopic loss aversion.