The diversification theorem restated: Risk-pooling without assignment of probabilities

Journal of Risk and Uncertainty

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 35-51

  Skogh, Göran ^a   Wu, Hong ^b  

^a LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Decision making; Justice; Pooling; Risk; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

EID: 24144458208     PISSN: 08955646     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11166-005-2929-0     Document Type: Article

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