The descriptive and predictive adequacy of theories of decision making under uncertainty/ambiguity

DOI10.1007/s11166-010-9102-0zbMath1233.91073OpenAlexW2012997954MaRDI QIDQ707889

John D. Hey, Anna Maffioletti, Gianna Lotito

Publication date: 8 October 2010

Published in: Journal of Risk and Uncertainty (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2318/138082

zbMATH Keywords

uncertaintydecision makingprospect theoryambiguitydecision field theory(Ghirardato) alpha model(Gilboa and Schmeidler) maxmax EU(Gilboa and Schmeidler) maxmin EU(subjective) expected utilitybingo blowerchoquet expected utilitymaxinmaxmaxminimum regret

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Experimental studies (91A90)

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