Risky choices and correlated background risk

Management Science

Volumn 51, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 1336-1345

  Tsetlin, Ilia ^a   Winkler, Robert L ^b  

^a INSEAD   (Singapore)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Background risk; Correlated risks; Decision analysis

Indexed keywords

BACKGROUND RISKS; CORRELATED RISKS;

CORRELATION METHODS; DECISION MAKING; DECISION THEORY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

RISKS;

EID: 25844447924     PISSN: 00251909     EISSN: 15265501     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/mnsc.1050.0414     Document Type: Article

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