The data of Levy and Levy (2002) ‘Prospect theory: much ado about nothing?’ actually support prospect theory

The data of Levy and Levy (2002) ‘Prospect theory: much ado about nothing?’ actually support prospect theory

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Article ID: iaor20042285
Country: United States
Volume: 49
Issue: 7
Start Page Number: 979
End Page Number: 981
Publication Date: Jul 2003
Journal: Management Science
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Keywords: Utility theory, prospect theory
Abstract:

Levy and Levy present data that, according to their claims, violate prospect theory. They suggest that prospect theory's hypothesis of an S-shaped value function, concave for gains and convex for losses, is incorrect. However, all the data of Levy and Levy are perfectly consistent with the predictions of prospect theory, as can be verified by simply applying prospect theory formulas. The mistake of Levy and Levy is that they, incorrectly, thought that probability weighting could be ignored.

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