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American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.Abstract Crop insurance is undoubtedly an extremely valuable element in protecting agricultural businesses, but in many cases standard indemnity‐based products have had very low uptake due to high transaction costs elevating premiums to unaffordable levels.
Amogh Prakasha Kumar +2 more
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Accuracy, Certainty and Surprise - A Prediction Market on the Outcome of the 2002 FIFA World Cup [PDF]
In this chapter, we present our empirical investigation of the forecasting accuracy of a prediction market experiment drawn on the outcome of the World Cup 2002.
Volkland, Henning Oskar +2 more
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Games, Probability and the Quantitative µ-Calculus [PDF]
, 2002 The standard µ-calculus is a powerful tool for specifying and verifying transition systems, including those with demonic (universal) and angelic (existential) choice; its quantitative generalisation extends that to probabilistic choice.
CC Morgan, AK McIver
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Effects of Probabilistic Win-Paired-Cue Delivery on Loss Trials on Risky Choice in Rats [PDF]
Problem gambling, or Gambling Disorder, is a behavioral disorder that affects 2.5% of the U.S. population and can result in detriments to physical, mental, and financial well-being. Electronic gambling machines (e.g., slot machines, video poker, pachinko)
Lambert, Connor M
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Neural systems involved in delay and risk assessment in the rat [PDF]
, 2007 This thesis investigated the contribution of the nucleus accumbens core (AcbC) and the hippocampus (H) to choice and learning involving reinforcement that was delayed or unlikely.
Cardinal, Rudolf N
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Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study employs an intersectionality‐informed latent class analysis (LCA) to examine the hidden diversity of discouraged workers in Australia. Drawing on nationally representative data from the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia Survey, we identified six empirically distinct subgroups defined by intersecting demographic and ...
Sora Lee, Woojin Kang
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Rationality and dynamic consistency under risk and uncertainty [PDF]
, 2013 For choice with deterministic consequences, the standard rationality hypothesis is ordinality - i.e., maximization of a weak preference ordering. For choice under risk (resp.
Zank, Horst; id_orcid +4 more
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Prospect relativity: How choice options influence decision under risk [PDF]
, 2003 In many theories of decision under risk (e.g., expected utility theory, rank-dependent utility theory, and prospect theory), the utility of a prospect is independent of other options in the choice set.
Chater, N +3 more
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One-counter Markov decision processes [PDF]
, 2010 We study the computational complexity of some central analysis problems for One-Counter Markov Decision Processes (OC-MDPs), a class of finitely-presented, countable-state MDPs.OC-MDPs extend finite-state MDPs with an unbounded counter.
A. Kučera +14 more
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Arthroscopy, Sports Medicine, and Rehabilitation, EarlyView.Purpose To estimate the number, risk factors, and types of basketball‐related injuries in pediatric patients who presented to United States emergency departments between 2019 and 2023, as estimated by the National Electronic Injury Surveillance System (NEISS).
Samisha M. Khangaonkar +7 more
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