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.e. aggregate investment and investment in energy saving technologies, using subjective evaluations of expectations and uncertainty … of general investment spending. Furthermore, expectations and uncertainty have important although different effects on …This paper analyses the effect of uncertainty on investment spending. We analyse two types of investment, i …
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expectations. We provide ample anecdotal, historical, and heuristic information on the goodness-of-fit of the various exchange rate …
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expectations. Each market is populated by six subjects and a small fraction of fun- damentalist traders. Realized prices differ …
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choose no punishment (destroy nothing) or the highest level of punishment (destroy everything). (4) Expectations have a …
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whether the related expectations and realizations match each other. We use the Dutch Social Economic Panel survey data, where … expectations about the next year's financial situation are reported. We show that realized changes exceed expectations, and that … conditional distribution of expectations and realizations, suggest that individuals around retirement are overly pes- simistic and …
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from individual expectations. Subjects have no information about underlying market equilibrium equations, but can learn by … stable treatment, rational expectations (RE) yield a good description of observed aggregate price fluctuations: prices remain …
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-report measures were related to destruction decisions and expectations. The pattern of emotional arousal and its correlation with self …
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This paper provides an overview of the work of Herbert Simon and his ideas about rational decision making. By his own standards, Simon is an economist who works in the tradition of Adam Smith and Alfred Marshall. The central theme in Simon’s research is how human beings organize themselves in...
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In this paper we introduce flexibility as an economic concept and apply it to the firm’s security issuance decision and capital structure choice. Flexibility is the ability to make decisions that one thinks are best even when others disagree. The firm’s management values flexibility because...
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countries. An overall evaluation requires that attention is given to the perception and endogeneity of uncertainty …
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