Comonotonic proper scoring rules to measure ambiguity and subjective beliefs

Journal of Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis

Volumn 17, Issue 3-4, 2010, Pages 101-113

  Kothiyal, Amit ^a   Spinu, Vitalie ^a   Wakker, Peter P ^a  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Ambiguity; Nonexpected utility; Proper scoring rules; Subjective beliefs

Indexed keywords

EID: 84878510799     PISSN: 10579214     EISSN: 10991360     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mcda.454     Document Type: Article

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