Eliciting decision weights by adapting de Finetti's betting-odds method to prospect theory

Journal of Risk and Uncertainty

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 179-199

  Diecidue, Enrico ^a   Wakker, Peter P ^b   Zeelenberg, Marcel ^c  

^a INSEAD   (France)

^b ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Ambiguity; Inverse S; Optimism; Pessimism; Prospect theory; Rank dependent utility

Indexed keywords

EID: 34249715226     PISSN: 08955646     EISSN: 15730476     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11166-007-9011-z     Document Type: Article

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