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The RVT predicts equilibrium prices in a world where investors ignore variance and only care about cumulative returns. Such prices determine intrinsic returns that satisfy the CAPM equation. This paper shows that assets that pay a constant (or constantly increasing) dividend but face each year...
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The Relative Value Theory predicts equilibrium prices in a world in which time value of money is unique, and investors are risk-indifferent and only care about maximizing cumulative returns. This paper shows that RVT’s equilibrium prices determine intrinsic expected returns that satisfy the...
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elicited (violation of procedure invariance). In this paper we examine precisely which classical conditions of rationality it …
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This paper examines the concepts of trust and trustworthiness in the context of a one-sided variation of the prisoner's dilemma, and it evaluates four different categories of solutions to the PD problem: changing player preferences, enforcing explicit contracts, establishing implicit contracts,...
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rationality conditions are formulated, which are called behavioural and habitual rationality. While common knowledge of the former …
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The literary source of the main ideas in Aumann's article ``Backward Induction and Common Knowledge of Rationality" is …
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By reinterpreting Savage axioms as axioms of the social rationality over resource allocations, we derive a social …
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The paper contrasts Lipset’s modernization hypothesis and Przeworski- Limongi hypothesis that entries into democracy … are random with respect to income. We use data on income and democracy going back to 1820, multiple definitions of … democracy, and non-parametric testing focusing on the distribution of entrants’ incomes. We find that income matters for entry …
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Natural resources in sub-Saharan Africa suffer from a bad reputation. Oil and diamonds, particularly, have been blamed for a number of Africa’s illnesses such as poverty, corruption, dictatorship and war. This paper outlines the different areas and transmission channels of how this so-called...
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politicians accountable to voters, as well as introduce more competition, which should decrease corruption. On the other hand, the … need for politicians to now raise campaign funds, as well as the increased availability of rents that results from economic …
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