Event exchangeability: Probabilistic sophistication without continuity or monotonicity

Econometrica

Volumn 74, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 771-786

  Hong, Chew Soo ^a,b   Sagi, Jacob S ^c  

^a HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Ambiguity; Decision theory; Nonexpected utility; Probabilistic sophistication; Risk; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

EID: 33646366703     PISSN: 00129682     EISSN: 14680262     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0262.2006.00682.x     Document Type: Review

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