risk aversion and models of the utility function. One particular theory (expected utility with rank dependent probabilities …

sets simulated for Full Signal Detection Theory and its special cases of standard Signal Detection Theory and Complementary … Signal Detection Theory. …

preferences beyond the classical concept of expected utility theory. The thesis contains four main chapters.The first two chapters … dependence compared to classical models of expected utility theory. It is shown that some empirical puzzles concerning … utility theory are met. It is shown that the methodological concerns are empirically relevant when a classification of …

wird die Wirkung beider Instrumente auf die Nutzen der Arbeitnehmer und auf die gesamtwirschaftliche Wohlfahrt analysiert … können die Nutzen der Arbeitnehmer und die Beschäftigung im Vergleich zum Referenzfall ohne Eingriff erhöhen. Die Einführung … intervention serves as basing point.Minimum wages as well as wage subsidies can increase employment and the utility of the workers …

. In contrast with the previous literature, our approach is applicable to the direct and indirect utility functions and …

feeder to market pigs and a price matrix, the uncertainty in profits is evaluated. The impacts of risk on the decision making … of swine producers are examined under the framework of expected utility and stochastic dominance analysis. Our results … show that production risk from weight variability of market hogs is important in determining profits and utility under a …

products on the other hand; resulted in estimating the demand ofrice in Togo at the second stage of utility maximization …

electricity sales, Duke Energy spreads 90% of the cost that it would have taken for the utility to generate the saved electricity …