What finance theory is based on-- and much of economics is based on-- the idea that people want to maximize the expected utility of their wealth.

金融学理论建立在,并且很多经济学的都是建立在,人们希望能使自己对,财富的期望效用最大化这一基础上

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To calculate the expected utility of your wealth, you might also have to look at the expected return, or the geometric expected return, or the standard deviation.

要计算你财富的期望效用,你也许还要研究预期收益曲线,或几何预期收益率,或是标准差

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Whether to gamble, based on efficient-- based on expected utility theory.

例如赌博,你们是注重效率呢,还是注重预期效用

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That is expected utility theory.

预期效用理论

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Of course, we will also be talking about behavioral finance in this course and we'll, at times, be saying that the utility function concept isn't always right-- the idea that people are actually maximizing expected utility might not be entirely accurate.

当然 我们还会,在这门课上讨论行为金融学,并且,我们会间或,讨论到效用函数不总是正确的,人们希望最大化期望效用的观点,也许并不是完全准确的

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