Anxiety and decision making with delayed resolution of uncertainty

Theory and Decision

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 159-199

  Wu, George ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Decision analysis; Delayed resolution of uncertainty; Rank dependent utility; Risk theory; Stochastic stationarity

Indexed keywords

EID: 0009316633     PISSN: 00405833     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/a:1004990410083     Document Type: Article

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