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Following a long-standing philosophical tradition, impartiality is a distinctive and determining feature of moral judgments, especially in matters of distributive justice. This broad ethical tradition was revived in welfare economics by Vickrey, and above all, Harsanyi, under the form of the...
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The role that Bernanke’s Bad News Principle plays in the modern theory of investment under uncertainty is analyzed. The …
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From the model of Hobijn and Jovanovic (2001), we modelize a technological shock with uncertainty. We assume that this … technological shock appears in the shape of new firms. Only a part of these firms will be productive. Uncertainty relates to the … identification of the viable firms. This uncertainty decreases with the time and the diffusion of fundamentalist information that …
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This paper analyzes the impact of different types of barriers on the decision to invest using a simple framework based on stochastic discount factors. Our intuitive approach proposes an alternative to the real options methodology that does not rely on the “smooth-pasting condition.” An...
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The effect that investment lags has on the uncertainty-investment relationship is studied by modifying the Bar-Ilan and … small, uncertainty affects investment negatively; (ii) A sufficiently large time lag engenders an inverse u …-shape relationship between the degree of uncertainty and the profit level that triggers investment; (iii) When such an inverse u- shape …
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. 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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backgrounds of the experiments and their impact on the development of consumption theory are also investigated. Among other things …
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Empirical studies of intertemporal dynamics of individual income, distribution of personal income, and growth and distribution of national income are all based on statistics that rely on some concept of income. The dominant one today appears to be the so-called Haig-Simons-Hicks (HSH) concept of...
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In 1913, the Cambridge logician W.E. Johnson published a famous article on demand theory in the Economic Journal …
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This paper examines the history of the neoclassical theory of consumer demand from 1871 to 1971 by bringing into play … the knowledge theory of the Marburg School, a Neo-Kantian philosophical movement. The work aims to show the usefulness of …
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