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In perfectly competitive economies under uncertainty, there is a well-known equivalence between a formulation with …
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This paper provides a characterization of the consequences of the assumption that a decision maker with a given utility function is Choquet rational: She maximizes expected utility, but possibly with respect to non-additive beliefs, so that her preferences are represented by Choquet expected...
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the household balance sheet, i.e. liabilities and assets. Additionally, we allow the influence of social interaction on … types of debt and financial assets held conditional on holding the different types of debt and assets. The analysis suggests … assets and liabilities. Our analysis also suggests that social interaction is associated with households holding larger …
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This paper analyses coping strategies and consumption reactions of rural households in Nicaragua to hurricane Mitch, which caused massive losses in especially the agricultural sector in 1998. A switching-regression model confirms theoretical considerations which indicate that responses to...
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the rural space. This paper characterizes household access to assets and agrarian institutions of households engaged in … agricultural-specific assets (including land and livestock) and institutions is in general low, though highly heterogeneous across …
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portfolios of marketed assets; equivalently, by projecting their payoffs on the span of the payoffs of marketed assets … information not revealed by the prices and payoffs of marketed assets, such as the marginal valuation by shareholders of revenue … commodity payoffs of shares; even in the absence of other, nominal assets, they are typically indeterminate if firms consider …
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educational outcomes. Yet changing the level of resources is one of the key policy levers open to governments. In the UK, school …
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) productive entrepreneurship and that it will therefore compete at the individual level for resources with commercial …
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