Expected utility violations: Implications for agricultural and natural resource economics

American Journal of Agricultural Economics

Volumn 85, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 1242-1248

  Buschena, David E ^a  

^a MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS; ECONOMIC THEORY; ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS;

EID: 0347900412     PISSN: 00029092     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0092-5853.2003.00537.x     Document Type: Article

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