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Concern over online information privacy is widespread and rising. However, prior research is silent about the value of information privacy in the presence of potential benefits from sharing personally identifiable information. We analyzed individuals' trade-offs between the benefits and costs of...
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This paper describes an application of conjoint analysis. The subject of the valuation study is the IJmeer nature reserve, which will be partly destroyed when the new residential area IJburg is built. This paper addresses the following question: ‘What is the extent of the loss of green and...
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In this study, the interaction between the competition-cooperation nexus and regulation in retail payment systems is analysed by applying the main lessons from the theory of network industries. This is justifiable on the grounds that the payment systems industry inherently has many...
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The main objective of this paper is to go deeper into the “annuity puzzle” by introducing the altruistic and strategic bequest motive and determining whether this really is a relevant factor affecting the theoretical decision to purchase life annuities. With this end in view we develop an...
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positive with Law of Mass Action of reversible economic (chemical) reactions. Study of utility ( I call utility as all that a … human being needs) helps us understand Quantity Theory better. Utility and water have similarities. Water is a form of … matter and utility is a form of wealth. Water is universal solvent and so is utility. All other forms of wealth dissolve in …
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Marshall's Utility which is nothing but need or usefulness satisfies the requirements of wealth. It can be expressed in … concentration. Like water in chemistry, this utility is a universal solvent in economics in which all other forms of wealth dissolve …. This utility is made up of two components; A)goods and services that are otherwise called WANTS and B)money and money …
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takes into account not only the utility of the per-period outcomes (instantaneous payoffs,) but also the differences between … the utility of pairs of adjacent outcomes, and the direction of the differences (gains or losses). In this framework loss …
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A formal scheme is described for coalition formation in a game of interconnected participants with monotonic utility … functions. Special coalitions are studied which have an advantage over the rest in the sense of higher utility for each of the …
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We apply Maslow’s hierarchy of needs to the concept of utility and then go on to a new model where individual …
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lifetime annuities by married couples. With this aim in mind, we develop an optimization model of the utility provided by …
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