Decisions risk and reward /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Johnson, Johnnie, 1952-, Bruce, Alistair.
Format: Electronic
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, 2008.
Series:Routledge studies in business organization and networks ; 44.
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Table of Contents:
  • Motivation for betting and risk taking
  • Toward an explanation of betting as a leisure pursuit
  • Costing excitement in leisure betting
  • Successful betting strategies : evidence from the UK off-course betting market
  • The impact of complexity on decision-making behaviour
  • The complex decision : insights from naturalistic research
  • An empirical study of the impact of complexity on participation in horserace betting
  • A probit model for estimating the effect of complexity on risk taking
  • Risk strategy under task complexity : a multivariate analysis of behaviour in a naturalistic setting
  • Decision making under risk : effect of complexity on performance
  • Gender differences in decision-making behaviour
  • Gender and DSS design : the research implications
  • Male and female betting behaviour
  • new perspectives
  • Gender-based differences in leisure behaviour : performance, risk-taking and confidence in off-course betting
  • Decision-making, risk and gender : are managers different?
  • The use of information by decision makers and deviations from rational economic behaviour
  • A violation of dominance and the consumption value of gambling
  • Exploring decision makers' use of price information in a speculative market
  • Gluck's second law : an empirical investigation of horserace betting in early and late races
  • Investigating the roots of the favourite-longshot bias : an analysis of decision-making by supply and demand-side agents in parallel betting markets
  • Market efficiency analysis requires a sensitivity to market characteristics : some observations on a recent study of betting market efficiency
  • Efficiency characteristics of a market for state contingent claims
  • Market ecology and decision behaviour in state-contingent claims markets
  • Calibration of subjective probability judgements in a naturalistic setting.