What do uncertainty-averse decision-makers believe?

Economic Theory

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 47-65

  Ryan, Matthew J ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Biseparable preferences; Epistemic foundations of decisions; Normal form games

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036706665     PISSN: 09382259     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s001990100187     Document Type: Article

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