Coping with ignorance: Unforeseen contingencies and non-additive uncertainty

Economic Theory

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 247-276

  Ghirardato, Paolo ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Belief functions; Choquet integrals; Pessimism index; Underspecified decision problem; Unforeseen contingencies

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035530136     PISSN: 09382259     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/PL00004108     Document Type: Article

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