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Need to know? : on information systems in firms

Bijkerk, Suzanne; Delfgaauw, Josse; Karamychev, Vladimir A. - 2018 - This version: November 14, 2018

In the context of firm decision-making, several motives for acquiring and conveying information exist. Information serves to make better decisions, to persuade, and to impress. In this paper, we study how these motives shape incentives to acquire and communicate information. We employ a...

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Expected utility and catastrophic risk

Ikefuji, Masako; Laeven, Roger; Magnus, Jan R.; Muris, Chris - 2014

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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Information in road networks with multiple origin-destination pairs

Emmerink, Richard H. M. (contributor) - 1995

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Reframing the Zachman information system architecture framework : a critical re-appraisal

Maes, Raoul; Dedene, Guido - 1996

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The integration of road-pricing and motorist information systems

Emmerink, Richard H. M.; Nijkamp, Peter; Rietveld, Piet - 1995

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Information effects in transport networks with stochastic capacity and uncertainty costs

Emmerink, Richard H. M. (contributor) - 1995

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The mediating role of psychosocial benefits in the satisfaction formation process

Prevo, Olaf; Leunisse, Patrick; Roest, Henk - 1999

In this paper we investigate the mediating role of psychosocial benefits in the customersatisfaction/dissatisfaction formation process. Most research on this subject deals with thecausality direction of psychosocial benefits and satisfaction, sometimes preceded by anoverall functional benefit...

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The connexion between old and new approaches to financial satisfaction

Praag, Bernard M. S. van - 2006 - Rev.

In this paper we compare the new satisfaction evaluation approach, developed inthe nineties by Oswald ,Clark , Blanchflower and others with the older incomeevaluation (IEQ) approach, developed by Van Praag and Kapteyn in theseventies of the previous century. We find that both approaches yield...

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Income and well-being

Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Ada - 2002

This paper presents an empirical analysis of the importance of 'comparison income' for individual well-being or happiness. In other words, the influence of the income of a reference group on individual well-being is examined. The main novelty is that various hypotheses are tested: importance of...

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Weighted temporal utility

Gerber, Anke; Rohde, Kirsten I. M. - 2013

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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