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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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We state the following hypotheses: 1) Happiness depends on social rank – a term from primatology meaning the place in group hierarchy which determines mating chances, number of offspring and food share; this dependence explains the correlation between relative income and subjective well-being...
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In this paper we first show that if a not-necessarily-self-financing portfolio has instantaneously riskless internal gains, then on an infinitesimal time-interval, the increase in the internal gains on the portfolio is the same as the change in the price of that amount of bonds which has the...
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This is the front matter from a book of interviews to be published by Blackwell. The book is coedited by W. A. Barnett and P. A. Samuelson. The front matter includes the Table of Contents, Coeditor Preface by W. A. Barnett, Coeditor Foreword by Paul A. Samuelson, and History of Thought...
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