Framing of risk and preferences for annual and multi-year flood insurance

Journal of Economic Psychology

Volumn 39, Issue , 2013, Pages 357-375

  Botzen, W J Wouter ^a   de Boer, Joop ^a   Terpstra, Teun ^b  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b HKV CONSULTANTS   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Communication; Decision making; Framing; Preference uncertainty; Risk perception

Indexed keywords

EID: 84888133760     PISSN: 01674870     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.joep.2013.05.007     Document Type: Article

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