Least convex capacities

Economic Theory

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 263-286

  Epstein, Larry G ^a   Zhang, Jiankang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Ambiguity; Capacity; Choquet expected utility; Convex capacity; Non additive probability; Risk aversion; Uncertainty; Uncertainty aversion

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033248324     PISSN: 09382259     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s001990050254     Document Type: Article

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