Unforced Errors: Tennis Serve Data Tells Us Little About Loss Aversion

Volume: 16, Issue: 1
Published: Jan 1, 2019
Abstract
Nejat Anbarci and collaborators argue in two recent papers that male tennis players’ behaviour is consistent with aversion to losses rather than maximization of expected utility. To prove this point they sketch simple theoretical models. I discuss numerous shortcomings of their theoretical and empirical analysis. I suggest that their conclusion, that male tennis players are loss averse, is...
Paper Details
Title
Unforced Errors: Tennis Serve Data Tells Us Little About Loss Aversion
Published Date
Jan 1, 2019
Volume
16
Issue
1
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