Attitudes to ambiguity in one-shot normal-form games: An experimental study

Games and Economic Behavior

Volumn 71, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 366-394

  Ivanov, Asen ^a  

^a VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ambiguity; Beliefs; Experiments; Risk

Indexed keywords

EID: 79951946731     PISSN: 08998256     EISSN: 10902473     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geb.2010.05.009     Document Type: Article

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