Anticipated regret as an explanation of uncertainty aversion

Economic Theory

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 709-728

  Krähmer, Daniel ^a   Stone, Rebecca ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ambiguity aversion; Hindsight bias; Information aversion; Reference dependence; Regret; Uncertainty aversion

Indexed keywords

EID: 84875522622     PISSN: 09382259     EISSN: 14320479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00199-011-0661-3     Document Type: Article

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