Testing expected utility in the presence of errors

Economic Journal

Volumn 117, Issue 518, 2007, Pages 470-485

  Schmidt, Ulrich ^a   Neugebauer, Tibor ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^b LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY HANNOVER   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; ERROR ANALYSIS; TESTING METHOD;

EID: 34147155931     PISSN: 00130133     EISSN: 14680297     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0297.2007.02026.x     Document Type: Article

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