Kim, Jin Gyo; Menzefricke, Ulrich; Feinberg, Fred M. - In: Management Science 53 (2007) 2, pp. 340-354
Empirical evidence suggests that decision makers often weight successive additional units of a valued attribute or monetary endowment unequally, so that their utility functions are intrinsically nonlinear or irregularly shaped. Although the analyst may impose various functional specifications...