Discrepancies between ex ante and ex post efficiency under identical subjective probabilities

Economic Theory

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 413-425

  Silvestre, Joaquim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Ex ante vs. ex post welfare; Ex post efficiency; Risk aversion and risk attraction

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036025529     PISSN: 09382259     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s001990100196     Document Type: Article

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