Individual and group decision making under risk: An experimental study of Bayesian updating and violations of first-order stochastic dominance

Journal of Risk and Uncertainty

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 129-148

  Charness, Gary ^a   Karni, Edi ^b   Levin, Dan ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian updating; Decision making under risk; First order stochastic dominance; Group decisions

Indexed keywords

EID: 34848875664     PISSN: 08955646     EISSN: 15730476     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11166-007-9020-y     Document Type: Article

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