Lottery Decisions and Probability Weighting Function

Journal of Risk and Uncertainty

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 21-33

  Alarie, Yves ^a   Dionne, Georges ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b HEC MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Pricing of lotteries; Probability weighting function w(p); Regressive function; Standard tests for lottery choices; Tests

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035611037     PISSN: 08955646     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1011149422763     Document Type: Article

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