Utility Functions for Wealth

Journal of Risk and Uncertainty

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 5-44

  Bell, David E ^a   Fishburn, Peter C ^b  

^a HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL   (United States)

^b AT AND T LABS RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Consistency axiom; Contextual uncertainty; Expected utility; One switch condition; Rank dependent utility; Skew symmetric bilinear utility; Weighted utility

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034420095     PISSN: 08955646     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1007822718954     Document Type: Article

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