'Expected utility/subjective probability' analysis without the sure-thing principle or probabilistic sophistication

Economic Theory

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 1-62

  Machina, Mark J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Almost objective uncertainty; Robustness; Subjective uncertainty

Indexed keywords

EID: 11944256530     PISSN: 09382259     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00199-004-0573-6     Document Type: Article

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