Generating ambiguity in the laboratory

Management Science

Volumn 57, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 705-712

  Stecher, Jack ^a   Shields, Timothy ^b   Dickhaut, John ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CHAPMAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ambiguity; Decision analysis; Ellsberg; Knightian uncertainty; Laboratory experiments; Theory

Indexed keywords

AMBIGUITY; DECISION ANALYSIS; ELLSBERG; KNIGHTIAN UNCERTAINTY; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; THEORY;

DECISION MAKING; DECISION THEORY; LABORATORIES; SAMPLING; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EXPERIMENTS;

EID: 79954489541     PISSN: 00251909     EISSN: 15265501     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/mnsc.1100.1307     Document Type: Article

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