Better may be worse: Some monotonicity results and paradoxes in discrete choice under uncertainty

Theory and Decision

Volumn 63, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 121-151

  Weibull, Jörgen W ^a   Mattsson, Lars Göran ^b   Voorneveld, Mark ^a,c  

^a STOCKHOLM SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (Sweden)

^b ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^c TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Decision theory; Discrete choice; Monotonicity; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

COST EFFECTIVENESS; DECISION MAKING; HEURISTIC METHODS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBLEM SOLVING; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

FIRST-ORDER CONDITIONS; MONOTONE LIKELIHOOD-RATIO; OPTIMAL PRECISION LEVEL;

DECISION THEORY;

EID: 34547236489     PISSN: 00405833     EISSN: 15737187     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11238-007-9041-7     Document Type: Article

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