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We live in the plastic age (the "plasticene"), producing over 300 million tonnes (mt) of plastic every year globally, 5–15 mt of which flow into already polluted oceans. Plastic remains a key material in the global economy, but low rates of collection, reuse and recycling, emissions of...
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Risk management in this paper is focused on multivariate risk-return decision making assuming time-varying estimation …
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concerned with the patenting decision, we take into account that a disclosure effect may decrease the merits of patenting by …. An empirical investigation of the theoretical results finds support for the proposed effects. -- Patenting decision …
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It takes a woman and a man to make a baby. This fact suggests that for a birth to take place, the parents should first agree on wanting a child. Using newly available data on fertility preferences and outcomes, we show that indeed, babies are likely to arrive only if both parents desire one, and...
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In this paper, we assess the degree to which four of the most commonly used models of risky decision making can explain … enough to approximate Kahnenman and Tversky's prospect theory and that for certain parametric values will yield the expected … explain the decision-making behavior of the majority of our subjects. Surprisingly, we find that the choice behavior of the …
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The term economic diplomacy has established itself in the Croatian sources as an umbrella term for all the activities of the national state to protect and promote its own economic interests in the international environment. Under the broader concept of economic diplomacy we distinguish the...
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In some contexts, an individual's choice to mimic the behavior of others, to join the herd, can increase systemic risk and retard the production of information. Herding can thus produce negative externalities. And in such situations, individuals by definition have insufficient incentives to...
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probabilistically mix over multiple competing decision paradigms. We pairwise combine the Random Utility Model (RUM), Contextual … and that the discrete mixture models are able to consistently identify two latent groups of decision makers, allowing us …
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