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Utility, induced utilities, and small worlds
Behavioral Science, 1965Abstract : Decision theory in its present state of development fails to provide sufficient criteria for the unique formulation of a decision problem. The resulting ambiguity may lead to quite disparate interpretations of the same decision task by different individuals.
M, Toda, E H, Shuford
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The impact of utilization review on costs and utilization
1992This paper examines the performance of a utilization review program using data from Aetna's utilization review (UR) customers compared to a representative sample of its customers which had no utilization review during the study period. Statistical adjustments were made for the utilization management status, employee demographics, plan benefits, group ...
R K, Khandker, W G, Manning
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Theory and Decision, 2013 The topic of the article is related to converting deterministic economic theory into an econometric model. The author considers the commonly used method to add a random error term on the utility scale and proposes a modification of this method to account for stochastic dominance.
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A Framework for IT as a Utility
Fifth International Conference on Information Technology: New Generations (itng 2008), 2008The IT Utility Model has created a new market for the delivery of IT, one that is not yet standardised or regulated let alone commoditised or traded. This paper takes a cross sectional look at the key players and their specific pricing policies aligned to the delivery of IT as a utility. The research seeks to explain the different pricing policies that
Ryan Coombes, Jawed I. A. Siddiqi
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Management Science
We study the interaction of flexible capital utilization and depreciation for expected returns and investment of firms. Empirically, an investment strategy that buys (sells) equities with low (high) utilization rates earns 5% per annum. Utilization predicts excess returns beyond other production-based variables.
Fotis Grigoris, Gill Segal
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We study the interaction of flexible capital utilization and depreciation for expected returns and investment of firms. Empirically, an investment strategy that buys (sells) equities with low (high) utilization rates earns 5% per annum. Utilization predicts excess returns beyond other production-based variables.
Fotis Grigoris, Gill Segal
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, 2007 A major virtue of von Neumann-Morgenstern utilities, for example, in the theory of general financial equilibrium (GFE), is that they ensure time consistency: consumption-portfolio plans (for the future) are in fact executed (in the future) — assuming that there is perfect foresight about relevant endogenous variables. This paper proposes an alternative
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Utility for NATO — Utility of NATO?
2011In the aftermath of World War II, the Truman doctrine and a strategy of containment was adopted. A central element of this containment strategy was the US-centered alliance system; while the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) was the European part of the system. There were similar alliance formations in other parts of the world.
Håkan Edström +2 more
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Management Science, 1968
Utility theory is interested in people's preferences or values and with assumptions about a person's preferences that enable them to be represented in numerically useful ways. The first two sections of this paper say more about what utility is, why people are interested in it, and how it is interpreted and used in the management and behavioral ...
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Utility theory is interested in people's preferences or values and with assumptions about a person's preferences that enable them to be represented in numerically useful ways. The first two sections of this paper say more about what utility is, why people are interested in it, and how it is interpreted and used in the management and behavioral ...
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Annals of the American Thoracic Society, 2015
Emily, Landon, Michael D, Howell
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Emily, Landon, Michael D, Howell
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1981
A program does not exist alone. It must be translated into a form suitable for machine execution, and executed on a specific machine. In most cases, a high level language permits the formulation of the program in terms that do not depend on the machine. The main benefit derived from this machine independence is portability. However there are situations
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A program does not exist alone. It must be translated into a form suitable for machine execution, and executed on a specific machine. In most cases, a high level language permits the formulation of the program in terms that do not depend on the machine. The main benefit derived from this machine independence is portability. However there are situations
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