Utility of gambling II: Risk, paradoxes, and data

Economic Theory

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 165-187

  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; Expected utility; Functional equations; Independence properties; Linear weighted utility; Segregation; Utility of gambling; Utility paradoxes

Indexed keywords

EID: 44349146773     PISSN: 09382259     EISSN: 14320479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00199-007-0259-y     Document Type: Article

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