The Discounting of Ambiguous Information in Economic Decision Making

Journal of Behavioral Decision Making

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 341-352

  Van Dijk, Eric ^a   Zeelenberg, Marcel ^b  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Ambiguity; Decoupling; Disjunction effect; Sunk costs

Indexed keywords

EID: 0347532747     PISSN: 08943257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bdm.450     Document Type: Article

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