Violations of betweenness or random errors?

Economics Letters

Volumn 91, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 34-38

  Blavatskyy, Pavlo R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Betweenness; Decision theory; Quasi concave; Quasi convex; Stochastic utility

Indexed keywords

EID: 33645739118     PISSN: 01651765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2005.10.011     Document Type: Article

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