Anchored preference relations

Journal of Economic Theory

Volumn 130, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 283-295

  Sagi, Jacob S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Anchoring; Cumulative prospect theory; Decision theory; Endowment effect; Non expected utility; Reference dependence; Status quo bias; Utility representation

Indexed keywords

EID: 33748035738     PISSN: 00220531     EISSN: 10957235     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jet.2005.01.009     Document Type: Article

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