Background Risk, Demand for Insurance, and Choquet Expected Utility Preferences

GENEVA Papers on Risk and Insurance Theory

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 7-28

  Jeleva, Meglena ^a  

^a CREST   (France)

Author keywords

Background risk; Demand for insurance; Nonexpected utility

Indexed keywords

EID: 0346677885     PISSN: 09264957     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1008730106771     Document Type: Article

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