A truth serum for non-bayesians: Correcting proper scoring rules for risk attitudes

Review of Economic Studies

Volumn 76, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1461-1489

  Offerman, Theo ^a   Sonnemans, Joep ^a   van de Kuilen, Gijs ^b   Wakker, Peter P ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC CONDITIONS; ECONOMIC THEORY; RISK ASSESSMENT; THEORETICAL STUDY;

EID: 70149124084     PISSN: 00346527     EISSN: 1467937X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-937X.2009.00557.x     Document Type: Article

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