An Experimental Test of a General Class of Utility Models: Evidence for Context Dependency

Journal of Risk and Uncertainty

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 75-93

  Chechile, Richard A ^b   Cooke, Alan D J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Context dependent utility scaling; Generic utility theory; Subjective equivalence of gambles

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031538072     PISSN: 08955646     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1007773804402     Document Type: Article

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