Multi-criteria decision making for choosing socially responsible investment within a behavioral portfolio theory framework: a new way of investing into a crisis environment

Annals of Operations Research

Volumn 247, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 549-580

  Bilbao Terol, Amelia ^a   Arenas Parra, Mar ^a   Cañal Fernández, Verónica ^a   Bilbao Terol, Celia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OVIEDO   (Spain)

Author keywords

Behavioral portfolio with mental accounting; Conditional value at risk; Fuzzy inference system; Goal programming; Socially responsible investing

Indexed keywords

EID: 84938497342     PISSN: 02545330     EISSN: 15729338     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10479-015-1947-9     Document Type: Article

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