Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/282152 
Year of Publication: 
2023
Series/Report no.: 
Discussion Paper No. 461
Publisher: 
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München und Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Collaborative Research Center Transregio 190 - Rationality and Competition, München und Berlin
Abstract: 
Loss aversion postulates that people prefer avoiding losses over acquiring gains of equal size. It is a central part of prospect theory and, according to Daniel Kahneman, "the most significant contribution of psychology to behavioral economics" (Kahneman, 2011, p. 300). It has powerful implications for decision theory and has been fruitfully applied in many subfields of economics. However, because the reference point is often not well defined and loss aversion interacts with other behavioral biases, there is some controversy about the concept.
Subjects: 
loss aversion
reference point
prospect theory
endowment effect
decision theory
risk
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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