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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 …
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-varying forecast uncertainty and risk for the real price of oil over the period 1974-2018. We show that the combination approach …We propose a novel and numerically efficient quantification approach to forecast uncertainty of the real price of oil … analysis of profit-loss and hedging against price risk. …
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-varying forecast uncertainty and risk for the real price of oil over the period 1974-2018. We show that the combination approach …We propose a novel and numerically efficient quantification approach to forecast uncertainty of the real price of oil … analysis of profit-loss and hedging against price risk. …
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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 various modelling approaches to address uncertainty and demonstrate … thatignoring uncertainty issues may easily lead to distorted estimates of values of travel time. Thisis of special relevance in …
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degree of rationality that is higher than which can be attained by the individual. In this realm his main preoccupation are …
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This paper studies shock transmission across macroeconomic sectors in the UK, using data from the Bank of England's Flow of Funds statistics. We combine two different approaches to quantify the spread of shocks to assess whether sectors with large bilateral economic linkages as measured through...
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Neumann-Morgenstern expected utility functions using cooperative game theory. The social network literature studies various … ordinary risk . We show that this leads to a class of centrality measures that is fully determined by the degrees (i.e. the …
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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 experienced during the game. Risk aversion decreases after earlier expectations have been shattered by unfavorable … outcomes or surpassed by favorable outcomes. Our results point to reference-dependent choice theories such as prospect theory …
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Travelers often are incompletely informed about travel alternatives, which has important implications for various domains of travel behavior such as whether or not to make a trip, modal choice, the timing of a trip or route choice. During the last decade large efforts have been made to increase...
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