Estimating subjective probabilities

Journal of Risk and Uncertainty

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 207-229

  Andersen, Steffen ^a   Fountain, John ^b   Harrison, Glenn W ^b   Rutström, E Elisabet ^b  

^a Department of International Economics and Management   (Denmark)

^b GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Risk attitudes; Scoring rules; Subjective probabilities

Indexed keywords

EID: 84905173804     PISSN: 08955646     EISSN: 15730476     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11166-014-9194-z     Document Type: Article

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