Updating preferences with multiple priors

Theoretical Economics

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 261-298

  Hanany, Eran ^a   Klibanoff, Peter ^b  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ambiguity; Bayesian; Consequentialism; Dynamic consistency; Ellsberg; Updating

Indexed keywords

EID: 34948815178     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15557561     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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