Updating subjective risks in the presence of conflicting information: An application to climate change

Journal of Risk and Uncertainty

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 63-97

  Cameron, Trudy Ann ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Alarmist learning; Ambiguity aversion; Bayesian updating; Prior posterior distributions; Risk elicitation; Subjective probability

Indexed keywords

EID: 15244342276     PISSN: 08955646     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11166-005-5833-8     Document Type: Article

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