Choice under uncertainty with the best and worst in mind: Neo-additive capacities

Journal of Economic Theory

Volumn 137, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 538-567

  Chateauneuf, Alain ^a   Eichberger, Jürgen ^b   Grant, Simon ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS 1 PANTHÉON SORBONNE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^c RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Choquet expected utility; Comonotonic preferences; Optimism; Pessimism; Subjective mixtures

Indexed keywords

EID: 36049037323     PISSN: 00220531     EISSN: 10957235     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jet.2007.01.017     Document Type: Article

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