Expected utility from additive utility on semigroups

Theory and Decision

Volumn 53, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 87-94

  Candeal, Juan C ^a   De Miguel, Juan R ^b   Induráin, Esteban ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZARAGOZA   (Spain)

^b PUBLIC UNIVERSITY OF NAVARRE   (Spain)

Author keywords

Continuous and additive utility; Expected utility; Preordered sets; Semigroups; Utility functions

Indexed keywords

ECONOMICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL METHODS; THEOREM PROVING; TOPOLOGY;

ADDITIVE UTILITY; EXPECTED UTILITY; PREORDERED SETS; SEMIGROUPS; UTILITY FUNCTIONS;

SET THEORY;

EID: 0036704176     PISSN: 00405833     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1020807903939     Document Type: Article

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