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Recognizing Investment Opportunities at the Onset of Recoveries

Fioretti, Guido - EconWPA - 2002

Investment decision-making is modeled by means of a Kohonen neural net, where neurons represent firms. This is done in order to model investments in novel fields of economic activity, that according to this model are carried out when firms recognize the emergence of a new technological pattern....

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Neural correlates of the affect heuristic during brand choice

Plassmann, Hilke; Kenning, Peter; Deppe, Michael; … - EconWPA - 2005

In this working paper it is investigated how affect and cognition interact in consumer decision making. The research …

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Evidence Theory: A Mathematical Framework for Unpredictable Hypotheses

Fioretti, Guido - EconWPA - 2002

Shafer's evidence theory is a branch of the mathematics of uncertain reasoning that allows for novel possibilities to be conceived by a decision-maker. Many of its findings exhibit striking similarities with an alternative decision theory purported by Shackle in the 1950s, before expected...

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Ideologies, Beliefs, and Economic Advice - A Cognitive- Evolutionary View on Economic Policy-Making

Slembeck, Tilman - EconWPA - 2000

Economists often perceive the “ideological beliefs“ held by political actors as obstacles to rational policy-making. In contrast, it is argued that ideologies have characteristics that appear desirable in policy- making in that they allow political actors to credibly commit themselves to...

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Knowledge and Structure

Fioretti, Guido - EconWPA - 2002

This article presents a formalization of knowledge based on a connectionist model of a firm's structure. Transaction costs are not ignored, but integrated with the knowledge-based approach. A numerical example on the canonical comparison of "Japanese" versus "American" organizational structures...

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Introducing a scale of market shocks

Zumbach, Gilles O.; Dacorogna, Michel M.; Olsen, Jorgen L. - EconWPA - 2004

Two 'event' scales for financial markets, called 'scale of market shocks' (SMS), are introduced, which measure the importance of the market movements. These indices are based on the price volatility and are computed by integrating mapped asset volatilities over time horizons that range from 1...

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Asset measurement in the costing of government services

EconWPA; Steering Committee for the Review of … - 2001

Differences in asset measurement techniques can have a major impact on reported capital costs. Their influence on total … that different methods of asset measurement could lead to quite large variations in reported capital costs. Considered in … the context of total unit costs, however, the differences created by these asset measurement effects were relatively small …

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The Discounted Economic Stock of Money with VAR Forecasting

Barnett, William; Chae, Unja; Keating, John - EconWPA - 2005

We measure the United States capital stock of money implied by the Divisia monetary aggregate service flow, in a manner consistent with the present-value model of economic capital stock. We permit non-martingale expectations and time varying discount rates. Based on Barnett’s (1991) definition...

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THE HIDDEN INEQUALITY IN SOCIALISM

Henderson, David; McNab, Robert M; Rozsas, Tamas - EconWPA - 2004

In the same time period over which the former socialist countries of Eastern Europe and Central Asia became freer, measured inequality of income for those countries increased. Researchers linked the increase to the egalitarian values of socialism and to the process of economic and political...

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Understanding Social Capital: Its Nature and Manifestiations in Rural Canada

Reimer, Bill - EconWPA - 2005

This presentation discusses an interpretation and analysis of social capital that is strongly integrated into a framework of social relations. We argue that social capital is organized in four fundamental types of social relations: market, bureaucratic, associative, and communal. Each type of...

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