The binarized scoring rule

Review of Economic Studies

Volumn 80, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 984-1001

  Hossain, Tanjim ^a   Okui, Ryo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Belief elicitation; Laboratory experiment; Prediction; Randomization; Risk preference; Scoring rule

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC ACTIVITY; ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; ERROR ANALYSIS; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; LABORATORY METHOD; METHODOLOGY; PREDICTION; PROBABILITY; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 84880735637     PISSN: 00346527     EISSN: 1467937X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/restud/rdt006     Document Type: Article

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