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Realization Utility [PDF]

open access: possibleSSRN Electronic Journal, 2008
A number of authors have suggested that investors derive utility from realizing gains and losses on assets that they own. We present a model of this "realization utility," analyze its predictions, and show that it can shed light on a number of puzzling facts.
Nicholas C. Barberis, Wei Xiong
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Utility Theory

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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The Clinical Utility of Utility Assessment

Medical Decision Making, 1982
The usefulness of utility assessment as a method for revealing individual patients' desires is limited by two methodological problems. Different utility assessment methods can yield inconsistent results, both within a single clinical context and in different contexts; and the methods may not reflect universal rules that a patient may wish to abide by ...
H, Bursztajn, R M, Hamm
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Utility, induced utilities, and small worlds

Behavioral Science, 1965
Abstract : 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 Utility of Utility Analysis

Human Performance, 1990
Recent research on utility analysis that focuses on estimating the dollar value of performance gains was critically reviewed and a case was made that other metrics for expressing utility may be desirable. The need to validate the accu- racy of utility predictions was emphasized, and factors that could adversely affect their accuracy were described in a
Robert J. Vance, Adrienne Colella
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The Utility of Utility Scores

Annals of the American Thoracic Society, 2015
Emily, Landon, Michael D, Howell
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Research utilization

Journal of Vascular Nursing, 2002
Janice D, Nunnelee, Steven D, Spaner
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'Utility-Based Utility', Second Version

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2008
A major virtue of von Neumann-Morgenstern utilities, for example, in the theory of general financial equilibrium (GFE), is that they ensure intertemporal consistency: consumption-portfolio plans (for the future) are in fact executed (in the future) - assuming that there is perfect foresight about relevant endogenous variables.
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Resource utilization

Pediatric Emergency Care, 1998
NORMAN M. ROSENBERG   +3 more
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Matching consumer segments to innovative utility business models

Nature Energy, 2021
Stephen Hall   +2 more
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