Academic Journal of Humanities & Social Sciences, 2021, 4(5); doi: 10.25236/AJHSS.2021.040502.
Anny Hu
Beijing National Day School, Beijing, 100000, China
Loss aversion is a phenomenon where gains and losses are unbalanced, which occurs in human financial activities. According to many studies, loss aversion will lead to erroneous results, such as human behaviors, government policies. Therefore, this paper needs to analyze these social problems brought by this behavior's improvement according to the causal relationship.
loss aversion, behavior's improvement, financial activities
Anny Hu. Why loss aversion matters. Academic Journal of Humanities & Social Sciences (2021) Vol. 4, Issue 5: 7-9. https://doi.org/10.25236/AJHSS.2021.040502.
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