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Goals and Plans in Protective Decision Making [PDF]
Protective decisions are often puzzling. Among other anomalies, people insure against non-catastrophic events, underinsure against catastrophic risks, and allow extraneous factors to influence insurance purchases and other protective decisions.
Howard Kunreuther, David H. Krantz
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Either, Or. Exploration of an Emerging Decision Theory. [PDF]
A novel decision theory is emerging out of sparse findings in economics, mathematics and, most importantly, psychology and computational cognitive science.
Fioretti, Guido
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Loss functions, utility functions and Bayesian sample size determination. [PDF]
, 2011 PhDThis thesis consists of two parts. The purpose of the first part of the research is to obtain Bayesian sample size determination (SSD) using loss or utility function with a linear cost function. A number of researchers have studied the Bayesian SSD
Islam, A. F. M. Saiful
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Devolving command decisions in complex operations [PDF]
, 2010 In contemporary military endeavours, Command and Control (C2) arrangements generally aim to ensure an appropriate regulation of command-decision autonomy such that decision-takers are able to act in a way that is consistent with the overall set of ...
Smith, J. Q., Dodd, Lorraine
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Iterated Admissibility as Solution Concept in Game Theory [PDF]
Admissibility, i.e. the deletion of weakly dominated strategies, is a highly controversia1 solution concept for non cooperative games. This paper proposes a complete theory of weak dominance and, contrary to almost al1 the literature on this topic, it ...
Mario Gilli
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Is There a Plausible Theory for Decision under Risk? [PDF]
, 2008 Theories of decision under risk that model risk averse behavior with decreasing marginal utility of money have previously been critiqued with calibration analyses.
Dasgupta, Utteeyo +3 more
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PREFERENCE RELATIONS IN RANKING MULTIVALUED ALTERNATIVES USING STOCHASTIC DOMINANCE: CASE OF THE WARSAW STOCK EXCHANGE [PDF]
This study used stochastic dominance tests for ranking alternatives under ambiguity, to build an efficient set of assets for a different class of investors.
Grazyna Trzpiot
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Comparative Statics, Informativeness, and the Interval Dominance Order [PDF]
We identify a natural way of ordering functions, which we call the interval dominance order and develop a theory of monotone comparative statics based on this order.
John K.-H. Quah, Bruno Strulovici
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Statistical Discrimination in Labor Markets: An Experimental Analysis [PDF]
Statistical discrimination occurs when distinctions between demographic groups are made on the basis of real or imagined statistical distinctions between the groups.
Ronald Oaxaca, David Dickinson
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Monetary aggregation theory and statistical index numbers [PDF]
This paper is the first of two from the Monetary Services Indices (MSI) Project at the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. The second paper, Working Paper 96-008B, summarizes the methodology, construction and data sources for the an extensive new database
Richard G. Anderson +2 more
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