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In recent years, there has been an increase in research on conventions motivated by the game-theoretic contributions of the philosopher David Lewis. Prior to this surge in interest, discussions of convention in economics had been tied to the analysis of John Maynard Keynes's writings. These...
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We analyze a series of macroeconometric models developed in the years of high theory by Marschak, Frisch and Leontief … spread of technological change through the producers’ exchanges network; the other is based on the coordination problems …
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contrast, uncertainty about the catastrophic threshold typically causes coordination to collapse. Whether the probability …
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We examine whether cooperative planning and uncertainty affect the magnitude of rework in concurrent engineering projects with upstream and downstream operations, and explore the impact of such rework on project delays. Using survey data from a sample of 120 business process (BP) redesign and...
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Study of risk has become more and more lately, the whole general theory of management due to increasing complexity of …
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Stimulated by Frank Knight's work, "Risk, Uncertainty and Profit," I present a theory of innovation based on what I … term Knightian decision theory. This theory includes a concept of uncertainty aversion, a behavioral property that makes … in undertaking risks. The theory leads directly to the conclusion that innovation in business is the natural domain of …
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Abstract I analyze optimal natural resource use in an intergenerational model with the risk of a catastrophe. Each generation maximizes a weighted sum of discounted utility (positive) and the probability that a catastrophe will occur at any point in the future (negative). The model generates...
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’ decisions in choice settings has been formally represented in economic theory up to date. To position our discussion within the … ongoing debate on uncertainty, we provide a?brief review of historical developments in economic theory and decision theory …
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A theory of choice under uncertainty is proposed which removes the completeness assumption from the Anscombe …-Aumann formulation of Savage's theory and introduces an inertia assumption. The inertia assumption is that there is such a thing as the … status quo and an alternative is accepted only if it is preferred to the status quo. This theory is one way of giving …
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It is not unusual in real-life that one has to choose among finitely many alternatives when the merit of each alternative is not perfectly known. This may be the case when an individual chooses school, doctor or pension plan, or when a firm chooses between alternative R&D projects. Instead of...
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