An ordinal characterization of the linear opinion pool

Economic Theory

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 457-474

  Chambers, Christopher P ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Linear opinion pool; Opinion pool; Ordinal probability; Probability aggregation; Utilitarian

Indexed keywords

EID: 34548805556     PISSN: 09382259     EISSN: 14320479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00199-006-0149-8     Document Type: Article

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