Choice-based elicitation and decomposition of decision weights for gains and losses under uncertainty

Management Science

Volumn 51, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 1384-1399

  Abdellaoui, Mohammed ^a   Vossmann, Frank ^b   Weber, Martin ^b  

^a ARTS ET MÉTIERS PARISTECH   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANNHEIM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Choice based probabilities; Choquet expected utility; Cumulative prospect theory; Decision under uncertainty; Decision weights; Probability weighting

Indexed keywords

FUNCTIONS; PROBABILITY; UNCERTAIN SYSTEMS;

CHOICE BASED PROBABILITIES; CHOQUET EXPECTED UTILITY; CUMULATIVE PROSPECT THEORY; DECISION UNDER UNCERTAINITY; DECISION WEIGHTS;

DECISION MAKING;

EID: 25844486659     PISSN: 00251909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/mnsc.1050.0388     Document Type: Article

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