Decision Under Risk
Published 1 January 2004
George Wu, Jianyu Zhang, Richard Gonzalez
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This chapter contains section titled: Introduction Expected Utility Subjective Expected Utility The Pre-prospect Theory Era Prospect Theory The Post-prospect Theory Era Future Research Final Thoughts
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