The risk-structure dependence effect: Experimenting with an eye to decision-aiding

Annals of Operations Research

Volumn 80, Issue , 1998, Pages 237-252

  Abdellaoui, M ^a   Munier, B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

Author keywords

Decision; Expected utility; Heuristic; Marschak Machina triangle; Risk; Risk structure

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032382473     PISSN: 02545330     EISSN: 15729338     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/a:1018916031387     Document Type: Article

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