Conditioning and aggregation of preferences

Econometrica

Volumn 65, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 347-367

  Skiadas, Costis ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Disappointment; Nonadditive utility; Nonseparable preferences; Preferences for information; Regret; Utility theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 0010092584     PISSN: 00129682     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2171896     Document Type: Article

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