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Altruism and egoism: Measurable by utility discount rates? [PDF]
, 2000 Altruism and egoism: measurable by utility discount rates?
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Testable Implications of Exponential Discounting [PDF]
, 2013 We develop a behavioral axiomatic characterization of exponentially discounted utility (EDU) over consumption streams. Given is an individual agent's behavior in the market: assume a finite collection of purchases across periods.
Echenique, Federico, Saito, Kota
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, 2005 We introduce a bond portfolio management theory based on foundations similar to those of stock portfolio management. A general continuous-time zero-coupon market is considered.
Ekeland, Ivar, Taflin, Erik
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Annals of Neurology, EarlyView.Objective The optimal treatment for distal medium vessel occlusion (DMVO) stroke remains uncertain, and evidence comparing endovascular therapy (EVT) with medical management (MM) is limited. We aimed to develop and validate a predictive modeling tool to assess individual treatment benefit in DMVO stroke using explainable counterfactual treatment ...
Mohamed F. Doheim +14 more
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Indexical utility: another rationalization of exponential discounting
Economics and PhilosophyAbstractThis paper is about time preferences, the phenomenon that the very same things are usually considered the less valuable the farther in the future they are obtained. The utilities of those things are discounted at a certain rate. The paper presents a novel normative argument for exponential discount rates, whatever their empirical adequacy.
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Public infrastructures, public consumption and welfare in a new open economy macro model [PDF]
This paper focuses on the trade-off faced by governments in deciding the allocation of public expenditures between productivity-enhancing public infrastructures and utility-enhancing public consumption in a two-country model.
Ganelli , Giovanni, Tervala, Juha
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Discounted Subjective Expected Utility in Continuous Time
By embedding uncertainty into time, we obtain a conjoint axiomatic characterization of both Exponential Discounting and Subjective Expected Utility that accommodates arbitrary state and outcome spaces. In doing so, we provide a novel and simple time-interpretation of subjective probability.
Bastianello, Lorenzo +1 more
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An axiomatic approach to sustainable development [PDF]
The paper proposes two axioms that capture the idea of sustainable development and derives the welfare criterion that they imply. The axioms require that neither the present nor the future should play a dictatorial role.
Chichilnisky, Graciela
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Scalable Robust Kidney Exchange
, 2018 In barter exchanges, participants directly trade their endowed goods in a constrained economic setting without money. Transactions in barter exchanges are often facilitated via a central clearinghouse that must match participants even in the face of ...
Bidkhori, Hoda +2 more
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BMJ OpenObjectives We sought to extrapolate the long-term costs and clinical impacts attributed to the rugby fans in training–New Zealand (RUFIT-NZ) trial in Aotearoa, New Zealand.Design A modelled cost-effectiveness analysis using efficacy data from RUFIT-NZ ...
Kate Hunt +12 more
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