Decomposable Choice under Uncertainty

Journal of Economic Theory

Volumn 92, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 169-197

  Grant, Simon ^c   Kajii, Atsushi ^a   Polak, Ben ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Sure thing principle; decomposability; uncertainty; dynamic programming solvability; nonexpected utility; betweenness

Indexed keywords

EID: 0041642788     PISSN: 00220531     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jeth.2000.2644     Document Type: Article

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