A subjective spin on roulette wheels

Econometrica

Volumn 71, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 1897-1908

  Ghirardato, Paolo ^a,b   Maccheroni, Fabio ^b,c   Marinacci, Massimo ^a,b   Siniscalchi, Marciano ^d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

^b ICER   (Italy)

^c BOCCONI UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^d NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ambiguity; Biseparable preferences; Incomplete preferences; Subjective mixtures

Indexed keywords

ALGEBRA; FUNCTIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY;

SUBJECTIVE EXPECTED UTILITY (SEU);

INDUSTRIAL ECONOMICS;

EID: 0242415459     PISSN: 00129682     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1468-0262.00472     Document Type: Article

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