Inferring beliefs as subjectively imprecise probabilities

Theory and Decision

Volumn 73, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 161-184

  Andersen, Steffen ^a   Fountain, John ^b   Harrison, Glenn W ^c   Hole, Arne Risa ^d   Rutström, E Elisabet ^c  

^a Department of Innovation and Organizational Economics   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

^c GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Experiments; Non linear mixed logit; Random coefficients; Subjective beliefs; Subjective risk

Indexed keywords

IMPRECISE PROBABILITIES; MIXED LOGIT; RANDOM COEFFICIENTS; RISK ATTITUDE; SIMULATED LIKELIHOOD; STRUCTURAL MODELS; SUBJECTIVE BELIEFS; SUBJECTIVE PROBABILITY;

ESTIMATION; EXPERIMENTS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD; MODEL STRUCTURES;

RISK PERCEPTION;

EID: 84861985902     PISSN: 00405833     EISSN: 15737187     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11238-011-9276-1     Document Type: Conference Paper

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