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consumes over time. Addiction, however, is documentedas one of numerous anomalies that the standard theory fails to explain …. The modelsof habit-forming and compulsive consumptions have been suggested as the economicways to analyze addiction. The …, inconsequence, leads to addiction. In particular, I show that the model of habit-formationcan be easily modified to describe …
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memory. The traditional Black-Scholes model is expanded to incorporate memory via an integral operator, resulting in a class … calls and puts are given by the Black-Scholes formula. The model has memory and can distinguish between historical …
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Background: Alcohol-induced blackouts (ie, periods of anterograde amnesia) have received limited recent research attention. Objective: To examine the genetic epidemiology of lifetime blackouts and having had 3 or more blackouts in a year, including analyses controlling for the frequency of...
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This paper considers bounded-memory players in a coordination game, who imitate the most successful remembered actions …. With exogenous inertia, risk-dominant equilibria are selected independently of the length of memory. Without inertia …, Pareto-dominant equilibria arise when memory is long enough. …
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(from the chapter) The REM model originally developed for recognition memory (R. M. Shiffrin and M. Steyvers, 1997) has … recently been extended to implicit memory phenomena observed during threshold identification of words. The authors discuss 2 …
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Consumers are in general less informed than producers about the quality of agricultural goods. To reduce the information gap, consumers can rely on standards (labels, certifications, geographic indications) that insure quality and origin of the goods. However, these standards do not always fully...
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the same club of states as used by McCunn and Huffman as well as different states within 10 clubs identified by the … statistical methodidentified only converging clubs. Variables affecting total factor productivity among states were identified …
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randomly from six large Sydney clubs. The results support female gambling stereotypes of lower individual bets and lower …
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Paper for presentation at the Northeastern Agricultural & Resource Economics Association’s Workshop on Economics and Child Nutrition Programs, AAEA & NAREA Joint Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, July 23, 2011.
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With the growing recognition of the role played by geography in all sorts of economic problems, there is strong interest in measuring the size and scope of local spillovers (i.e., simple anonymous agglomeration or congestion effects, or more complicated interactions between individuals or firms...
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