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In this paper I determine the importance of adjustment costs in employers' hiring decisions. Temporary work arrangements offer potential ways to avoid adjustment costs. I estimate employers willingness to pay for the characteristics of these work arrangements. I distinguish regular contracts,...
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The heteroscedastic logit model is useful to describe choices of individuals when the randomness in the choice-making varies over time. For example, during surveys individuals may become fatigued and start responding more randomly to questions as the survey proceeds. Or when completing a ranking...
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A flexible predictive density combination model is introduced for large financial data sets which allows for dynamic weight learning and model set incompleteness. Dimension reduction procedures allocate the large sets of predictive densities and combination weights to relatively small sets....
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A Bayesian dynamic compositional model is introduced that can deal with combining a large set of predictive densities. It extends the mixture of experts and the smoothly mixing regression models by allowing for combination weight dependence across models and time. A compositional model with...
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In several scientific fields, like bioinformatics, financial and macro-economics, important theoretical and practical issues exist that involve multimodal data distributions. We propose a Bayesian approach using mixtures distributions to approximate accurately such data distributions. Shape and...
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A flexible predictive density combination is introduced for large financial data sets which allows for model set incompleteness. Dimension reduction procedures that include learning allocate the large sets of predictive densities and combination weights to relatively small subsets. Given the...
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-Poisson distributions. The credibility and utility of our proposed approach is demonstrated through empirical investigations on datasets …
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We propose a novel utility representation for preferences over risky timed outcomes. The weighted temporal utility … model generalizes many well known utility functions for intertemporal decision making under risk. A decision maker with a … weighted temporal utility function can have time consistent yet non-stationary preferences or stationary yet time inconsistent …
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An expected utility based cost-benefit analysis is in general fragile to its distributional assumptions. We derive … necessary and sufficient conditions on the utility function of the expected utility model to avoid this. The conditions ensure … that expected (marginal) utility remains finite also under heavy-tailed distributional assumptions. Our results are context …
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