A note on the utility function under prospect theory

Economics Letters

Volumn 99, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 337-339

  al Nowaihi, Ali ^a   Bradley, Ian ^a   Dhami, Sanjit ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Functional equations; Preference homogeneity; Prospect theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 42649123699     PISSN: 01651765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2007.08.004     Document Type: Article

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