Contrary to the conventional wisdom which suggests that a perfectly rational subject with risk-averse attitude should never gamble, this paper provides a vivid example in our real economy for people to expect a positi...Contrary to the conventional wisdom which suggests that a perfectly rational subject with risk-averse attitude should never gamble, this paper provides a vivid example in our real economy for people to expect a positive return to gamble Within the existing literature, scholars have proposed different reasons to explain why an original risk-averse person would start to gamble, with the implicit assumption that the expected payoff of a bet is always lower than its cost. In contrast, our paper discusses when and why a risk-averse person could bet strategically with a positive expected return; in particular, we used field data in Hong Kong to illustrate a vivid scenario for positive expected return in gambling.展开更多
文摘Contrary to the conventional wisdom which suggests that a perfectly rational subject with risk-averse attitude should never gamble, this paper provides a vivid example in our real economy for people to expect a positive return to gamble Within the existing literature, scholars have proposed different reasons to explain why an original risk-averse person would start to gamble, with the implicit assumption that the expected payoff of a bet is always lower than its cost. In contrast, our paper discusses when and why a risk-averse person could bet strategically with a positive expected return; in particular, we used field data in Hong Kong to illustrate a vivid scenario for positive expected return in gambling.
