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expected utility (GEU) to the diversification of agents who maximize the conventional expected utility (EU). Specifically, we … derive the patterns of diversification for agents who maximize a rank-dependent' expected utility, attaching more weight to … bad' than to good' outcomes, in contrast to the probability weights used in a conventional expected utility maximization …
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Exchange rates depreciate by the difference between the domestic and foreign marginal utility growths. Exchange rates … vary a lot , as much as 10% per year. However, equity premia imply that marginal utility growths vary much more, by at … least 50% per year. This means that marginal utility growths must be highly correlated across countries -- international …
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This article studies the implications for the theory of deterrence of (a) the manner in" which individuals' disutility from imprisonment varies with the length of the imprisonment" term; and (b) discounting of the future disutility and future public costs of imprisonment. Two" questions are...
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utility.' In the inward-looking' economy, individuals care about how their consumption in the current period compares to their … case will lead to lower utility than in the inward-looking case …
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expected utility models. Households' deductible choices imply a median relative risk aversion of 108. Households' coverage …. Assessing rank dependent utility models, we find that households follow two tenets of prospect theory: overestimation of small …
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Warfare is enormously destructive, and yet countries regularly initiate armed conflict against one another. Even more surprisingly, wars are often quite popular with citizens who stand to gain little materially and may lose much more. This paper presents a model of warfare as the result of...
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Habit utility has been the focus of a large and growing body of literature in financial economics. This study …
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the Kahneman-Tversky choice experiments for expected utility theory. We suggest anomalies can extract theoretical insights … observe violations of the theory. As an illustration, we generate anomalies for expected utility theory using a large … procedures recover known anomalies and discover new ones for expected utility theory. In incentivized experiments, subjects …
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Suicide rates among youths aged 15-24 have tripled in the past half-century, even as rates for adults and the elderly have declined. And for every youth suicide completion, there are nearly 400 suicide attempts. This paper examines the dynamics of youth suicide attempts and completions, and...
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This paper considers the optimal tax treatment of voluntary transfers to individuals in a" framework that integrates redistributive income taxation and estate and gift taxation. Under this" formulation, redistributive considerations become secondary. The optimal tax treatment of" transfers...
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