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We discuss the endogenous selection of a costly allocation mechanism in a pure exchange economy. The allocation mechanism is modeled as an abstract trade center exhibiting setup costs, access costs and linear transaction costs. Exactly one trade center has to be selected. We define Pareto...
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Among the most popular models for decision under risk and uncertainty are the rank-dependent models, introduced by …
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dominance and therefore its primary applications will be descriptive. It sheds new light on empirical observations of risk …
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banks can extract market power rents. We show that more bank competition results in lower economy-wide risk, lower bank … allocation and optimal levels of bank risk and capitalization. These results are at variance with those obtained by a large … systemic risk in the economy. …
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.The game theoretic solution predicts (assuming risk neutrality) that actors are willing to accept wages below their outside … actors have uncertain risk aversion.The parameters of the game are calibrated to match data on 99 movies for 1989 available …
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The hypothesis that, on average, people accurately estimate probabilities in random walk processes is experimentally investigated.Individuals are confronted with a process that starts with $X, and in every stage either goes up or down by $1, with probabilities p and 1 - p respectively.For...
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We present a definition of increasing uncertainty, independent of any notion of subjective probabilities, or of any particular model of preferences.Our notion of an elementary increase in the uncertainty of any act corresponds to the addition of an 'elementary bet' which increases consumption by...
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risk, even if banks fully internalize the costs of negative outcomes. In this way, banks can reduce the surplus they have … unambiguously lead to reduced risk-taking by their top traders. …
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