Status quo bias, multiple priors and uncertainty aversion

Games and Economic Behavior

Volumn 69, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 411-424

  Ortoleva, Pietro ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ambiguity aversion; Endowment effect; Status quo bias

Indexed keywords

EID: 77953540061     PISSN: 08998256     EISSN: 10902473     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geb.2009.11.007     Document Type: Article

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