Utility of gambling I: Entropy modified linear weighted utility

Economic Theory

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 1-33

  Luce, R Duncan ^a   Ng, C T ^b   Marley, A A J ^c   Aczél, János ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Duplex decomposition; Entropy; Functional equations; Joint receipt; Linear weighted utility; Segregation; Utility of gambling

Indexed keywords

EID: 41849131843     PISSN: 09382259     EISSN: 14320479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00199-007-0260-5     Document Type: Article

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