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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 it is proposed a fuzzy multiple attribute analysis, that we have called comparative concordance, as a help instrument to the decision-making process in an environment of lack of precise information as it generally is the decision-making in regional planning. Through an application...
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This paper postulate two poverty indices based on a fuzzyfication of the poverty line approach and shows that they satisfy some of the usual axioms in the poverty line literature. It also shows that the headcount ratio is a particular case of a poverty measure based on fuzzy sets. Finally this...
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