Measuring the Utility of Losses by Means of the Tradeoff Method

Journal of Risk and Uncertainty

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 277-296

  Fennema, Hein ^a   Van Assen, Marcel ^b  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Diminishing sensitivity; Procedure invariance; Prospect theory; Risk aversion; Tradeoff; Utility elicitation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032252483     PISSN: 08955646     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/a:1007739018615     Document Type: Article

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