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uncertainty. The firm faces additional sources of uncertainty that are aggregated into a background risk. We show that the firm … attitude of the firm and the incidence of the underlying uncertainty. We further show that the firm's optimal input mix depends …. -- Background risk ; Capital structure ; Price uncertainty …
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. -- Prospect theory ; mean-variance model ; indifference curve ; price uncertainty ; hedging …The prospect theory is one of the most popular decision-making theories. It is based on the S-shaped utility function …, unlike the von Neumann and Morgenstern (NM) theory, which is based on the concave utility function. The S-shape brings in …
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uncertainty. We consider the prospect theory for the firm's utility function in the two moment model known as (mu … theory, mean-variance model, price uncertainty …Within the prospect theory the paper examines production and hedging decisions of a competitive firm under price …
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We examine the economic behavior of the regret-averse firm under price uncertainty. We show that the global and … marginal effects of price uncertainty on production are both positive (negative) when regret aversion prevails if the random …
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The paper revisits the impact of uncertainty on the decision problem of a bank. The bank extends risky loans to private … investors and sells deposits to savers at fixed rates. The uncertainty under which deposit/loan-portfolios are chosen by banks …
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uncertainty when the firm's preferences exhibit smooth ambiguity aversion. Ambiguity is modeled by a second-order probability … distribution that captures the firm's uncertainty about which of the subjective beliefs govern the exchange rate risk. Ambiguity …
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This paper examines the behavior of the regret-averse multinational firm under exchange rate uncertainty. The … less, sells more domestically, and export less abroad under uncertainty than under certainty holds if the multinational … value or a high value with positive probability, we show that the multinational firm may optimally produce more, sell less …
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-order probability distribution that captures the bank's uncertainty about which of the subjective beliefs govern the financial asset …
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The paper examines the economic role of modelling information on the decision problem of an exporting firm under exchange rate risk and hedging. Information is described in terms of market transparency, i.e., a publicly observable signal conveys more information about the random foreign exchange...
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The prospect theory is one of the most popular decision-making theories. It is based on the S-shaped utility function …, unlike the von Neumann and Morgenstern (NM) theory, which is based on the concave utility function. The S-shape brings in … mathematical challenges: simple extensions and generalizations of NM theory into the prospect theory cannot be frequently achieved …
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