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Therapeutic non adherence: a rational behavior revealing patient preferences ?

Lamiraud, Karine; Geoffard, Pierre-Yves - HAL - 2006

This paper offers an indirect measure of patient welfare based on whether patients comply with the prescription they receive. Adherence behavior is supposed to reveal patients' subjective valuations of particular therapies. We write a simple theoretical model of patient adherence behavior, that...

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The Brazilian organic food sector: Prospects and constraints of facilitating the inclusion of smallholders

Blanc, Julien; Kledal, Paul - HAL - 2012

The Brazilian organic food sector has experienced important growth during the last two decades. Brazilian smallholders, however, are facing huge challenges to enter and benefit from this growth in a sustainable way. Combining the lens of New Institutional Economics and socio-anthropology, we...

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"No Strings Attached": Welcoming the Existential Gift in Business

Fremeaux, Sandrine; Michelson, Grant - HAL - 2011

Social relations are predominantly influenced by an exchange paradigm whereby the logic of reciprocity shapes behaviour. If the notion of exchange instrumentalism is common across different business disciplines, this does not deny attempts - such as through gift exchange theory - to present...

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The Possibility of a Welfare Policy in a World of Emotion-Driven Individuals: A Humean Point of View

Lapidus, André - HAL - 2011

Based on Hume's major philosophical works and on some of his Essays, this paper discusses formally the feasibility, from a Humean point of view, of a welfare policy which would aim at promoting the highest individual happiness whereas individual decisions, like individual happiness, are...

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A model of inﬂuence with a continuum of actions

Grabisch, Michel; Rusinowska, Agnieszka - HAL - 2009

inclination to choose one of the actions. Due to inﬂuence among players, the ﬁnal decision of a player, i.e., his choice of one … inﬂuence another player with different inclination, and as a result of this inﬂuence, the decision of the player is closer to …

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A study of the dynamic of influence through differential equations

Maruani, Emmanuel; Grabisch, Michel; Rusinowska, Agnieszka - HAL - 2011

each agent is inclined to make a particular decision, but due to a possible influence of the others, his final decision may …

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Decision Making with Imprecise Probabilistic Information

Gajdos, Thibault; Tallon, Jean-Marc; Vergnaud, … - HAL - 2004

We develop an axiomatic approach to decision under uncertainty that explicitly takes into account the information … available to the decision maker. The information is described by a set of priors and a reference prior. We define a notion of … imprecision for this informational setting and show that a decision maker who is averse to information imprecision maximizes the …

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Decision theory under uncertainty

Etner, Johanna; Jeleva, Meglena; Tallon, Jean-Marc - HAL - 2009

We review recent advances in the field of decision making under uncertainty or ambiguity. …

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Stochastic Dominance of Any Type and Any Degree, and Expected Utility: A Unifying Approach

Lapidus, André - HAL - 2013

This paper provides a general framework for a unifying treatment of stochastic dominance of any degree and of any type (direct or inverse for each final or intermediary level). It gives the conditions for the congruence between stochastic dominance and classes of utility functions in this...

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Why Rationality May Be a Consequence of Hume's Theory of Choice

Diaye, Marc-Arthur; Lapidus, André - HAL - 2005

Facing R. Sugden's criticism of our interpretation, it is shown in this paper that rationality appears as a possible consequence of Hume's theory of choice. We first argue that Sugden's dismissal of the preference relation from the type of rationality through which Hume's theory is apprehended,...

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