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Formal Approaches to Socio Economic Policy Analysis - Past and Perspectives

Gräbner, Claudius - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015

This paper is motivated by the observation that (1) socio economic analysis uses significantly less formalisms than mainstream economics, and (2) that there exist numerous situations in which socio economics could benefit from a more formal analysis. This is particularly the case if institutions...

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Language and argumentation in the controversy economic

Estrada, Fernando - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

language dimensions of the argumentation in economy has advantages for the field of the explanation and the epistemology in the …

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Benoit Mandelbrot (1924 - 2010): A Greek among Romans

Estrada, Fernando - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

In this brief note describes the trajectory of the fractal models/multifractal F/M by Benoit Mandelbrot. The promise was discovered by the geometry of Mandelbrot covers a broad area of research fields, from meteorology and mathematical physics to the individual and collective behavior in...

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Benoit Mandelbrot (1924 - 2011 ) : A Greek among Romans

Estrada, Fernando - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

Posthumous tributes to Benoit Mandelbrot (1924-2010) have highlighted his remarkable influence on the natural sciences, from geometry to meteorology, to theories with non-Euclidean spaces and geospatial models approach. Mandelbrot culminates a series of major thinkers going back to classical...

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The value of information under unawareness

Galanis, Spyros - In: Journal of Economic Theory 157 (2015) C, pp. 384-396

The value of information is examined in a single-agent environment with unawareness. Although the agent has a correct prior about events he is aware of and has a clear understanding of his available actions and payoffs, his unawareness may lead him to commit information processing errors and to...

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Unawareness - A Gentle Introduction to both the Literature and the Special Issue

Schipper, Burkhard - Economics Department, University of California-Davis - 2014

This article provides a brief survey of the literature on unawareness and introduces the contributions to the special issue on unawareness in Mathematical Social Sciences. First, we provide a brief overview both about epistemic models of unawareness and models of extensive-form games with...

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Interactive unawareness

HEIFETZ, Aviad; MEIER, Martin; SCHIPPER, Burkhard C. - Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), … - 2004

, and which satisfies strong properties of knowledge as well as all the desiderata on unawareness proposed this far in the …

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A Canonical Model for Interactive Unawareness

Heifetz, Aviad; Meier, Martin; Schipper, Burkhard C. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005

among several individuals and strong properties of knowledge. We show that this generalized state-space model arises …

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Interactive Unawareness

Heifetz, Aviad; Meier, Martin; Schipper, Burkhard C. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005

-trivial unawareness among several individuals, and which satisfies strong properties of knowledge as well as all the desiderata on …

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Preference-Dependent Unawareness

Schipper, Burkhard - Economics Department, University of California-Davis - 2011

Morris (1996, 1997) introduced preference-based definitions of knowledge of belief in standard state-space structures … defining unawareness and knowledge in terms of preferences over acts in unawareness structures and showing their equivalence to … the epistemic notions of unawareness and knowledge, we try to build a bridge between decision theory and epistemic logic …

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