Inferring risk attitudes from certainty equivalents: Some lessons from an experimental study

Journal of Economic Psychology

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 469-486

  Krahnen, Jan Pieter ^a   Rieck, Christian ^b   Theissen, Erik ^a  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b Inst fur Kapitalmarktforschung / C   (Germany)

Author keywords

Certainty equivalent; Expected utility theory; Risk attitude; Vickrey auction

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031234492     PISSN: 01674870     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-4870(97)00019-6     Document Type: Article

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