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The value of travel time plays an important role in cost benefit analysis of infrastructureprojects. However, the issue of uncertainty on travel times and the implications this has forestimations of travel time values has received much less attention in the literature. In thispaper we compare...
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Neumann-Morgenstern expected utility functions using cooperative game theory. The social network literature studies various … measures can be supported as von Neumann-Morgenstern expected utility functions, reflecting preferences over different network … cooperative TU-games to give a utility foundation of a class of TU-game solutions containing the Shapley value. …
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This paper demonstrates that well-established biases in decision making under uncertainty can generate poverty traps. A theoretical framework is developed to demonstrate that: i) probability weighting and ambiguity attitude can lead individuals to erroneously undervalue profitable investments,...
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We develop an econometric methodology for the study of the yield curve and its interactions with measures of non-standard monetary policy during possibly turbulent times. The yield curve is modeled by the dynamic Nelson-Siegel model while the monetary policy measurements are modeled as...
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The computation of various risk metrics is essential to the quantitative risk management of variable annuity guaranteed benefits. The current market practice of Monte Carlo simulation often requires intensive computations, which can be very costly for insurance companies to implement and take so...
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experiments. Contrary to the traditional view of expected utility theory, the choices can be explained in large part by previous … outcomes or surpassed by favorable outcomes. Our results point to reference-dependent choice theories such as prospect theory …
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We show that if an agent is uncertain about the precise form of his utility function, his actual relative risk aversion … may depend on wealth even if he knows his utility function lies in the class of constant relative risk aversion (CRRA …) utility functions. We illustrate the consequences of this result for asset allocation: poor agents that are uncertain about …
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