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It has long been recognized that there is considerable heterogeneity in individual risk taking behavior but little is known about the distribution of risk taking types. We present a parsimonious characterization of risk taking behavior by estimating a finite mixture regression model for three...
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In the last three decades, two questions have been central for the Left. Is there a future for electoral socialism and social democracy? And, is it any longer possible to promote a significant redistribution of income in favour of labour? Political and economic events seem to suggest negative...
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ln the last three decades, two questions have been central for the Left. ls there a future for electoral socialism and social democracy? And, is it any longer possible to promote a significant redistribution of income in favour of labour? Political and economic events seem to suggest negative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010457026
The uncovered interest rate parity equation is the cornerstone of most models in international macro. However, this equation does not hold empirically since the forward discount, or interest rate differential, is negatively related to the subsequent change in the exchange rate. This forward...
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on the other players rationality is addressed within our multi-agent framework. We find that, if costs/payoffs act as …
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There is abundant evidence that many individuals violate the rationality assumptions routinely made in economics …. However, powerful evidence also indicates that violations of individual rationality do not necessarily refute the aggregate … predictions of standard economic models that assume full rationality of all agents. Thus, a key question is how the interactions …
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This report explores the development of exploitation theory in mathematical Marxian economics by reviewing the main controversies surrounding the proper definition of exploitation since the contribution of Okishio (1963). The report first examines the debates on the Fundamental Marxian Theorem...
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In the backdrop of the low level of health insurance coverage in India, this study examines the determinants of the scaling-up process of health insurance by analyzing the rational behaviour of an insurance agent facing a trade-off between selling 'health insurance' and 'other forms of...
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The rationality of choices is one of the most fundamental assumptions of traditional economic analysis. Yet … rationality have been introduced in the literature to quantify the size of rationality violations. However, it is not clear which … between the different measures. Second, we develop methods to compute the most-used measures of rationality. Exploiting this …
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rationality, which we define axiomatically. Two axioms are considered. The first says that a player is irrational if she chooses a … rationality characterizes the iterated deletion of pure strategies that are strictly dominated by pure strategies. The second … that common knowledge of this stronger notion of rationality characterizes the restriction to pure strategies of the …
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