Expected Qualitative Utility Maximization

Games and Economic Behavior

Volumn 35, Issue 1-2, 2001, Pages 54-79

  Lehmann, Daniel ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

Non standard utilities; Qualitative decision theory; Utility theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 0043145628     PISSN: 08998256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/game.1998.0787     Document Type: Article

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