Can good news lead to a more pessimistic choice of action?

DOI10.1007/BF00134156MaRDI QIDQ1102842zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Giacomo Bonanno

Publication date 1988

Published in Theory and Decision (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00134156

zbMATH Keywords

Bayesian updatingfirst-order stochastic dominance

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Decision theory (91B06)

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