Maxmin Expected Utility over Savage Acts with a Set of Priors

Journal of Economic Theory

Volumn 92, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 35-65

  Casadesus Masanell, Ramon ^a   Klibanoff, Peter ^a   Ozdenoren, Emre ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Uncertainty aversion; ambiguity; expected utility; set of priors; knightian uncertainty

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001860442     PISSN: 00220531     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jeth.1999.2630     Document Type: Article

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