A Single-Stage Approach to Anscombe and Aumann's Expected Utility

Review of Economic Studies

Volumn 64, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 399-409

  Sarin, Rakesh ^a   Wakker, Peter ^a  

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EID: 0043066363     PISSN: 00346527     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2971720     Document Type: Article

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