Why a decision maker may prefer a seemingly unfair gamble

Decision Sciences

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 239-253

  Prakash, Arun J ^a   Chang, Chun Hao ^a   Hamid, Shahid ^a   Smyser, Michael W ^b  

^a FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Capital Budgeting; Decision Analysis; Risk and Uncertainty; Utility Theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 0041051043     PISSN: 00117315     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-5915.1996.tb00852.x     Document Type: Article

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