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In the history of economic thought, Shackle was one of the representative critics about probability based economic … theory. Specifically, he constructed his own concept of subjective uncertainty called potential surprise to replace … probability. In 1980s, the potential surprise is axiomatized by Katzner as Kolmogorov-styled measure defined on the &#x1d70e …
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graphing tools are used, such as, probability paper and different specifications of exponential functions representing … cumulative probability distributions. The argument is that traditional time-series analysis implies a given universe, usually … uncertainty (nonmeasureable risk) due to regime changes. The analogs show the investor how to determine when a regime change has …
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generally guided by call-put option pricing models - which rely on an ergodic notion of probability that conforms to a normal … distribution function. This paper considers critiques of the above models, which include Keynes's Treatise on Probability (1921 … uncertainty." The methodological issues, as can be pointed out, are relevant in the context of policy issues and social …
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local municipalities do not have a higher probability of getting work early after arrival. …
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awareness-dependent subject expected utility and assigns probability zero to some subsets of states that are not necessarily … events. We discuss in what sense probability zero can model unawareness. …
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integration of sustainability criteria in all enterprises' decision-making and risk management and control processes, becomes more …
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motives, the roles and the consequences of the Jesuits as agents of information regarding China affected the European … and transmission of information. It finds that economic progress and political consolidation in Europe did result in a …
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This paper presents a new method to detect informed trading activities in the options markets.An option trade is identified as informed when it is characterized by an unusual largeincrement in open interest and volume, induces large gains, and is not hedged in the stock market.For the period...
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We develop a new theory of international capital flows based on dispersed in-formation across individual investors …-standing asset price behavior. We introduce information dispersion into an openeconomy dynamic general equilibrium portfolio choice … model, and emphasize twoimplications for capital flows that are speci…c to the presence of dispersed infor-mation. First …
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theoretical model assuming, first, that the amounts given is private information, only known to the donor and the donee, while the … amounts bequeathed is public information. Second, we assume that parents care about the reputation that their bequest behavior …
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