Decisions
Subtitle: risk and reward
By: edited by Johnnie Johnson and Alistair Bruce.
Contributors: Johnson, Johnnie, 1952-; Bruce, Alistair.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780415426282; 9780203932810
Subjects: Decision making; Risk-taking (Psychology); Horse racing -- Great Britain; Gambling -- Great Britain
Table of contents: title: Motivation for betting and risk taking; title: Toward an explanation of betting as a leisure pursuit; title: Costing excitement in leisure betting; title: Successful betting strategies : evidence from the UK off-course betting market; title: The impact of complexity on decision-making behaviour; title: The complex decision : insights from naturalistic research; title: An empirical study of the impact of complexity on participation in horserace betting; title: A probit model for estimating the effect of complexity on risk taking; title: Risk strategy under task complexity : a multivariate analysis of behaviour in a naturalistic setting; title: Decision making under risk : effect of complexity on performance; title: Gender differences in decision-making behaviour; title: Gender and DSS design : the research implications; title: Male and female betting behaviour; title: new perspectives; title: Gender-based differences in leisure behaviour : performance, risk-taking and confidence in off-course betting; title: Decision-making, risk and gender : are managers different?; title: The use of information by decision makers and deviations from rational economic behaviour; title: A violation of dominance and the consumption value of gambling; title: Exploring decision makers' use of price information in a speculative market; title: Gluck's second law : an empirical investigation of horserace betting in early and late races; title: Investigating the roots of the favourite-longshot bias : an analysis of decision-making by supply and demand-side agents in parallel betting markets; title: Market efficiency analysis requires a sensitivity to market characteristics : some observations on a recent study of betting market efficiency; title: Efficiency characteristics of a market for state contingent claims; title: Market ecology and decision behaviour in state-contingent claims markets; title: Calibration of subjective probability judgements in a naturalistic setting.