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A mechanism for eliciting a probability distribution

Xiangyu Qu

Economics Letters, 2012, vol. 115, issue 3, 399-400

Abstract: This work extends Karni’s direct revelation mechanism for eliciting agents’ subjective beliefs over the distribution of a random variable.

Keywords: Probability elicitation mechanism; Subjective probability; Cumulative distribution function (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C49 D81 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2011.12.097

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