A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush? When do we prefer something certainly dirty to something perhaps clean?

Journal of Risk and Uncertainty

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 35-51

  Lange, Andreas ^a,b   Moslener, Ulf ^b  

^a CENTRE FOR EUROPEAN ECONOMIC RESEARCH ZEW   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

New technologies; Pollutant interaction; Uncertainty and learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 3042792941     PISSN: 08955646     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:RISK.0000031444.37497.26     Document Type: Article

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