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The Dvoretzky-Wald-Wolfowitz theorem and purification in atomless finite-action games
Khan, M.; Rath, Kali; Sun, Yeneng - In: International Journal of Game Theory 34 (2006) 1, pp. 91-104
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Two-Segment Separable Programming
Meyer, R. R. - In: Management Science 25 (1979) 4, pp. 385-395
New iterative separable programming techniques based on two-segment, piecewise-linear approximations are described for … the minimization of convex separable functions over convex sets. These techniques have two advantages over traditional … separable programming methods. The first is that they do not require the cumbersome "fine grid" approximations employed to …
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Separable spatial modeling of spillovers and disturbances
Pace, R.; Zhu, Shuang - In: Journal of Geographical Systems 14 (2012) 1, pp. 75-90
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Catching Up with the Economy
Fogel, Robert W. - In: American Economic Review 89 (1999) 1, pp. 1-21
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Theories of the Mind
Brocas, Isabelle; Carrillo, Juan D. - In: American Economic Review 98 (2008) 2, pp. 175-80
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GARP for Kids: On the Development of Rational Choice Behavior
Harbaugh, William T.; Krause, Kate; Berry, Timothy R. - In: American Economic Review 91 (2001) 5, pp. 1539-1545
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Why Do the Rich Save So Much?
Carroll, Christopher - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 1998
This paper considers several alternative explanations for the fact that households with higher levels of lifetime income ( the rich') have higher lifetime saving rates (Dynan, Skinner, and Zeldes (1996); Lillard and Karoly (1997)). The paper argues that the saving behavior of the richest...
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Moral Rules and the Moral Sentiments: Toward a Theory of an Optimal Moral System
Kaplow, Louis; Shavell, Steven - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2001
We examine how moral sanctions and rewards, notably the moral sentiments involving feelings of guilt and virtue, would be employed to govern individuals' behavior if the objective were to maximize social welfare. In our model, we analyze how the optimal use of guilt and virtue is influenced by...
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Household Portfolios in Japan
Iwaisako, Tokuo - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2003
This paper provides an in-depth review and analysis of household portfolios in Japan. (1) Using both aggregate and disaggregate data, it is shown that the shares of equities in household financial wealth have been decreasing throughout the 1990s. Stock market participations of Japanese...
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A simple explanation of some key time preference anomalies
Xia, Bianjun - In: Canadian Journal of Economics 44 (2011) 2, pp. 695-708
Individual time discounting behaviour experimentally exhibits important anomalies that are inconsistent with the standard discounted utility model. These include the time preference reversal characteristic of hyperbolic discounting, the magnitude effect and the extreme sign effect. I propose a...
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