Risk aversion and the value of information

Decision Support Systems

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 241-254

  Nadiminti, Raja ^a   Mukhopadhyay, Tridas ^a   Kriebel, Charles H ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Costless information; Costly information; Information economics; Risk aversion; Value of information

Indexed keywords

ADMINISTRATIVE DATA PROCESSING; DATA ACQUISITION; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; RISKS; SUPERVISORY PERSONNEL;

COSTLESS INFORMATION; COSTLY INFORMATION; INFORMATION ECONOMICS; RISK AVERSION; VALUE OF INFORMATION;

DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS;

EID: 0030105712     PISSN: 01679236     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0167-9236(95)00023-2     Document Type: Article

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