Options traders exhibit subadditive decision weights

Journal of Risk and Uncertainty

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 5-17

  Fox, Craig R ^a   Rogers, Brett A ^b   Tversky, Amos ^b  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Decision weights; Risk; Subadditivity; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

EID: 21344454527     PISSN: 08955646     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00055335     Document Type: Article

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