Desirability and information processing: an experimental study

DOI10.1016/J.ECONLET.2017.01.012MaRDI QIDQ1672871zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Alexander Gotthard-Real

Publication date 11 September 2018

Published in Economics Letters (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2017.01.012

zbMATH Keywords

optimismBayes' rulebelief updatingwishful thinking

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Decision theory (91B06) Experimental studies (91A90)

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• Axiomatic characterization of the quadratic scoring rule

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