A theory of vague expected utility

Topics in Theoretical Economics

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2004, Pages

  Manzini, Paola ^a   Mariotti, Marco ^a  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cyclical preferences; Expected utility; Incomplete preference relation

Indexed keywords

EID: 14844359054     PISSN: 1534598X     EISSN: 1534598X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2202/1534-598X.1168     Document Type: Article

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