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A theory of endogenous time preference, and discounted utility anomalies

Boyarchenko, Svetlana; Levendorskii, Sergei - EconWPA - 2005

function and underlying uncertainty. We provide analytic expressions and numerical examples for discount factors assuming … simple utility functions and gaussian uncertainty. …

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Discount factors ex post and ex ante, and discounted utility anomalies

Boyarchenko, Svetlana; Levendorskii, Sergei - EconWPA - 2005

, waiting is valuable because uncertainty is revealed over time. The fair price (or compensation) that the individual agrees to … depend on the utility function and underlying uncertainty. After the decision of exchange had been made, valuation ex post … discount factors assuming different utility functions and models of uncertainty, and demonstrate that our explanation of …

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A Model of Primary and Secondary Waves in Investment Cycles

Fioretti, Guido - EconWPA - 2002

. Uniting Schumpeter's concern for innovation with Keynes' concern for uncertainty and expectations formation, this article … focuses on the behaviour of entrepreneurs confronting uncertainty caused by innovation. Entrepreneurs' behaviour is …

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The Law of One Price in Data Envelopment Analysis: Restricting Weight Flexibility Across Firms

Kuosmanen, Timo; Cherchye, Laurens; Sipiläinen, Timo - EconWPA - 2003

The Law of One Price (LoOP) states that all firms face the same prices for their inputs and outputs in the competitive market equilibrium. This law has powerful implications for productive efficiency analysis, which have remained unexploited thus far. This paper shows how LoOP-based weight...

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Firm and Industry Level Profit Efficiency Analysis Under Incomplete Price Data: A Nonparametric Approach based on Absolute and Uniform Shadow Prices

Kuosmanen, Timo; Kortelainen, Mika; Sipiläinen, Timo; … - EconWPA - 2005

We discuss the nonparametric approach to profit efficiency analysis at the firm and industry levels in the absence of complete price information, and propose two new insights. First, choosing one commodity (whose price is known) as a numeraire good enables us to measure profit inefficiency in...

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Value Creation and Profit Optimization

Winther, K. Tobias - EconWPA - 2002

The present paper develops a basic framework for evaluating and optimizing profits in a business operation. In developing a business we are often faced with an infinity of choices ranging from what products or services to sell and what customers to target to how to structure and manage the...

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Benchmarking real-valued acts

Castagnoli, Erio; LiCalzi, Marco - EconWPA - 2005

A benchmarking procedure ranks real-valued acts by the probability that they outperform a benchmark B; that is, an act f is evaluated by means of the functional V(f) = P(f B). Expected utility is a special case of benchmarking procedure, where the acts and the benchmark are stochastically...

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Risk and Evolution

To, Ted - EconWPA - 1995

I examine a Knightian model of entrepreneurial risk and investment where in addition to the self-selection process for choosing entrepreneurs, there is an evolutionary selection process over the representation of various risk attitudes. Under a standard evolutionary dynamic, rather than...

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Influence of Brand Name in Variety Seeking Behavior of Consumers: An Empirical Analysis

Rajagopal - EconWPA - 2005

The variety-seeking behavior and the brand choice among the consumers have been discussed extensively in the previous research contributions from the stochastic point of view. This study argues that although consumers are seeking novelty and unexpectedness in a brand that they have not bought...

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The Bad Government: A Source of Uncertainty and Business Fluctuations

Harashima, Taiji - EconWPA - 2004

Uncertainty represented by volatilities in equity markets has been observed to be time-variable and lead output … fluctuations. In the rational expectation framework, uncertainty with this nature needs exogenous variables with time … that supervisions and law enforcement that reduce cheatings in contracts is one of the ultimate sources of uncertainty. The …

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