Loss aversion

Economic Theory

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 127-148

  Blavatskyy, Pavlo R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

Author keywords

Loss aversion; More loss averse than; Nonmonetary outcomes; Probabilistic choice; Rank dependent utility theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 78650771841     PISSN: 09382259     EISSN: 14320479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00199-009-0504-7     Document Type: Article

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