Preferences over location-scale family

Economic Theory

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 119-146

  Wong, Wing Keung ^a,b   Ma, Chenghu ^c  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b HONG KONG BAPTIST UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

^c XIAMEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Inverse problem; Location scale dominance; Location scale family; Mean variance rule; Non expected utility function; Stochastic dominance

Indexed keywords

EID: 47249115751     PISSN: 09382259     EISSN: 14320479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00199-007-0254-3     Document Type: Article

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