This paper proposes a two-step method to successively elicit utility functions and decision weights under rank-dependent expected utility theory and its "more descriptive" version: cumulative prospect ...

Differentiability is a convenient property of von Neumann-Morgensten utility functions which is almost always imposed but has not been translated into behavioral terms. In applications, expected ...

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