Prospect theory for continuous distributions

Journal of Risk and Uncertainty

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 83-102

  Rieger, Marc Oliver ^a   Wang, Mei ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Continuity; Cumulative prospect theory; First order stochastic dominance; Probability weighting; Prospect theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 38349100470     PISSN: 08955646     EISSN: 15730476     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11166-007-9029-2     Document Type: Article

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