Measuring risk aversion in a name-your-own-price channel

Decision Analysis

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 123-136

  Abbas, Ali E ^a   Hann, Il Horn ^b  

^a United States of America   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Name your own price; Risk aversion; Sequential decisions; Utility functions

Indexed keywords

EID: 78651293165     PISSN: 15458490     EISSN: 15458504     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/deca.1100.0173     Document Type: Article

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