Conflicting violations of transitivity and where they may lead us

Theory and Decision

Volumn 68, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 233-242

  Day, Brett ^a   Loomes, Graham ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Choice experiment; Regret; Similarity; Transitivity

Indexed keywords

ASYMMETRIC PATTERNS; CHOICE EXPERIMENTS; EXPERIMENTAL ENVIRONMENT; REGRET THEORY;

EXPERIMENTS;

EID: 74849094718     PISSN: 00405833     EISSN: 15737187     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11238-009-9139-1     Document Type: Article

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