Eliciting subjective probability distributions with binary lotteries

Economics Letters

Volumn 127, Issue , 2015, Pages 68-71

  Harrison, Glenn W ^a   Martínez Correa, Jimmy ^b   Swarthout, J Todd ^c   Ulm, Eric R ^a  

^a GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Department of International Economics and Management   (Denmark)

^c GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Experiments; Risk attitudes; Subjective belief distributions

Indexed keywords

EID: 84921414305     PISSN: 01651765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2014.12.027     Document Type: Article

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