Conclusions favourable to flexible exchange rates typically accord with expected utility theory in ignoring the costs that exchange rate uncertainty generates for governments, central banks, firms and unions in: (i) choosing among available acts; and (ii) existing until learning the outcome of...

Divide the decision-maker's future into: (i) a pre-outcome period (lasting from the decision until the outcome of that decision is known), and (ii) a sequel post-outcome period (beginning when the outcome becomes known). Anticipated emotions in both periods may influence the decision, in...

The management game SINTO-Market was originally developed and programmed by Otwin Becker and Reinhard Selten and is recently performed at the University of Graz. The decisions are made by groups of students, each group represented by one of the three firms. The game SINTO-market puts the players...

It is hubris to propose that current economic knowledge allows central bankers to adequately fine tune excess reserves via price incentives; instead quantitative lending directives are needed, according to Robin Pope.