Small worlds: Modeling attitudes toward sources of uncertainty

Journal of Economic Theory

Volumn 139, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 1-24

  Chew, Soo Hong ^a   Sagi, Jacob S ^b  

^a HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ambiguity; Decision theory; Ellsberg paradox; Non expected utility; Probabilistic sophistication; Risk; Uncertainty; Utility representation

Indexed keywords

EID: 38849193961     PISSN: 00220531     EISSN: 10957235     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jet.2007.07.004     Document Type: Article

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