Dynamic Choice and NonExpected Utility

Journal of Risk and Uncertainty

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 87-120

  Sarin, Rakesh ^a   Wakker, Peter P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Consequentialism; Dynamic choice; Dynamic consistency; Nonexpected utility

Indexed keywords

EID: 0041438109     PISSN: 08955646     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/a:1007769628257     Document Type: Article

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