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Risk-Sensitive Dividend Problems
, 2014 We consider a discrete-time version of the popular optimal dividend pay-out problem in risk theory. The novel aspect of our approach is that we allow for a risk averse insurer, i.e., instead of maximising the expected discounted dividends until ruin we ...
Bäuerle, Nicole, Jaśkiewicz, Anna
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Psychological Assessment, 2016 Previous studies have demonstrated that working memory capacity plays a central role in delay discounting in people with externalizing psychopathology. These studies used a hyperbolic discounting model, and its single parameter-a measure of delay discounting-was estimated using the standard method of searching for indifference points between ...
Junyi Dai +4 more
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Modeling the Cost Effectiveness of Neuroimaging-Based Treatment of Acute Wake-Up Stroke. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2016 BACKGROUND:Thrombolytic treatment (tissue-type plasminogen activator [tPA]) is only recommended for acute ischemic stroke patients with stroke onset time
Ankur Pandya +5 more
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Cumulative weighing of time in intertemporal tradeoffs [PDF]
, 2016 We examine preferences for sequences of delayed monetary gains. In the experimental literature, two prominent models have been advanced as psychological descriptions of preferences for sequences.
Read, Daniel +2 more
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Decision-analytic cost-effectiveness model to compare prostate cryotherapy to androgen deprivation therapy for treatment of radiation recurrent prostate cancer [PDF]
, 2015 Objective: To determine the cost-effectiveness of salvage cryotherapy (SC) in men with radiation recurrent prostate cancer (RRPC). Design: Cost-utility analysis using decision analytic modelling by a Markov model.
Birrell, Fiona +5 more
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BMC Health Services Research, 2022 Background This study aimed to conduct a cost-utility analysis of the “Peritoneal Dialysis (PD)-First” policy in 2008 under a universal health coverage scheme and hemodialysis (HD) in Thai patients with End-stage Kidney Disease (ESKD) using updated real ...
Montira Assanatham +11 more
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An Experiment on Consumption Responses to Future Prices and Interest Rates [PDF]
, 2011 We design an experiment to investigate the influence of announced future variations in interest rates and prices on consumption decisions. In an experimental implementation of the discounted utility model, the subjects learn the entire paths of inflation
Luhan, Wolfgang J. +2 more
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Frontiers in Public Health, 2021 Background: Hepatitis C virus (HCV) genotype 1 is the most prevalent HCV infection in China. Sofosbuvir-based direct antiviral agent (DAA) regimens are the current mainstays of treatment.
Hui Jun Zhou +9 more
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, 2017 Mining for Bitcoins is a high-risk high-reward activity. Miners, seeking to reduce their variance and earn steadier rewards, collaborate in pooling strategies where they jointly mine for Bitcoins.
A Laszka +8 more
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PLoS Computational Biology, 2022 Value-based decision-making is of central interest in cognitive neuroscience and psychology, as well as in the context of neuropsychiatric disorders characterised by decision-making impairments.
Elke Smith, Jan Peters
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