Subjective Bayesian beliefs

Journal of Risk and Uncertainty

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 35-54

  Antoniou, Constantinos ^a   Harrison, Glenn W ^b,e,f   Lau, Morten I ^c,d   Read, Daniel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^b GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d Copenhagen Business School ^*  (Denmark)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^f IZA   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bayes Rule; Learning; Subjective beliefs

Indexed keywords

EID: 84925541206     PISSN: 08955646     EISSN: 15730476     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11166-015-9208-5     Document Type: Article

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