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A Rational Risk Policy? Why Path Dependence Matters [PDF]
Entropy, 2023 The Kelly criterion determines optimal bet sizes that maximize long-term growth. While growth is definitely an important consideration, the focus on growth alone can lead to significant drawdowns, leading to psychological discomfort for a risk-taker ...
Hans Geboers, Benoît Depaire
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Portage and Path Dependence. [PDF]
Q J Econ, 2012 We examine portage sites in the U.S. South, Mid-Atlantic, and Midwest, including those on the fall line, a geomorphological feature in the southeastern U.S. marking the final rapids on rivers before the ocean. Historically, waterborne transport of goods required portage around the falls at these points, while some falls provided water power during ...
Bleakley H, Lin J.
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path dependence and occupations [PDF]
, 2008 Path dependence in occupations refers to the observed occupational distribution in a population or in a sub-population at a point in time that depends on changes that occurred years or centuries earlier. Path dependence in occupations can be the outcome of the cumulative concentration of certain productive activities in specific regions over time, it ...
Botticini, Maristella, Eckstein, Zvi
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The relationship between physical exercise and mobile phone dependence in college students: the chain mediating of self-control and social adaptability [PDF]
BMC PsychologyPurpose This cross-sectional study aimed to examine the mediating effects of self-control and social adaptability on the association between physical exercise and mobile phone dependence among college students.
Chenglong Li +3 more
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Showing the path to path dependence: the habitual path [PDF]
European Political Science Review, 2014 This article investigates the conceptual and theoretical implications of the logic of habit for the path-dependence approach. In the existing literature, we see two different logics of action associated with two distinct models of path dependence: the logic of consequences (instrumental rationality) is linked with utilitarian paths (i.e.
Sarigil, Z.
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INTERNATIONAL SURVIVAL AND STRATEGIC RENEWAL THROUGH DISRUPT PATH DEPENDENCE
REAd, 2023 The aim of the present article is to analyze how firms can strategically renew themselves and disrupt their path dependence to survive in international markets, despite the influence of path dependence.
Gabrielle Damo Rossato +2 more
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Framing as Path Dependence [PDF]
Economics and Philosophy, 2004 A framing effect occurs when an agent's choices are not invariant under changes in the way a decision problem is presented, e.g. changes in the way options are described (violation of description invariance) or preferences are elicited (violation of procedure invariance). Here we identify those rationality violations that underlie framing effects.
Gold, Natalie, List, Christian
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Dependência e Criação de Trajetória na Organização Não Governamental Parceiros Voluntários [PDF]
RAC: Revista de Administração Contemporânea, 2014 Path dependence (PD) is not able to satisfactorily explain organizations’ strategic choices. There are some moments in which an organization needs to innovate and seek new solutions.
Claudia Bitencourt, Talita Oliveira
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Crack path dependence on inhomogeneities of material microstructure [PDF]
Fracture and Structural Integrity, 2012 Crack trajectories under different loading conditions and material microstructural features play animportant role when the conditions of crack initiation and crack growth under fatigue loading have to beevaluated.
Roberto Brighenti +3 more
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Roadmapping in Developing Countries
Foresight and STI Governance, 2009 The paper complete a series of two publications of the author (for the first paper «Technology Roadmaps: Tools for Development» see №3/2008). It contains an in-depth analysis of political, economic and social factors affecting the economic progress of ...
Anthony Clayton
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