The Valuation of Insurance under Uncertainty: Does Information about Probability Matter?

GENEVA Papers on Risk and Insurance Theory

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 195-224

  Di Mauro, Carmela ^a   Maffioletti, Anna ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALABRIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Ambiguity; Information; Insurance; Probability; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

EID: 0347142264     PISSN: 09264957     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1015277619421     Document Type: Article

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