Bayesian optimism

DOI10.1007/S00199-017-1064-XzbMATH Open1416.91088OpenAlexW4233093500MaRDI QIDQ1798802FDOQ1798802

Authors: Nick Saponara 

Publication date: 23 October 2018

Published in: Economic Theory (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00199-017-1064-x

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zbMATH Keywords

optimismnon-Bayesian updatingsubjective informationmotivated reasoning

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Decision theory (91B06)

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