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Inequality and Polarization.
Gajdos, T. - Centre de recherche de mathématiques et économie … - 2000
We give in this paper a formal definition of the concept of weak and strong a-polarization. We give necessary and sufficient conditions for a decision maker who respects the Lorenz order and who behaves in accordance with the expected utility model, with Yaari's dual model or with the...
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Quantifying public perceptions on socio-economic development – an example from the Aysen Watershed, Chile
Ianni, Elena; Feoli, Enrico; Marin, Victor H.; Delgado, … - In: International Journal of Sustainable Development 12 (2009) 2/3/4, pp. 303-320
a relevant gap between the ongoing policy and students' expectations. …
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Perceptions of Economic Insecurity: Evidence from the Survey of Economic Expectations.
Dominitz, J.; Manski, C.F. - Wisconsin Madison - Social Systems - 1996
We have recently initiated the Survey of Economic Expectations (SEE) in an effort to learn how Americans perceive their …
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Cross Section Vs Time Series Measures of Uncertainty: Using UK Survey Data
Driver, Ciaran; Trapani, Lorenzo - Econometric Society - 2004
This paper considers measures of uncertainty used in economic estimation. Our first contribution is to address the … subsequent empirical section, we compare measures of uncertainty, all of which are based on underlying dataon optimism from an … established UK survey database, managed by the main employers' organization, the CBI. We measure uncertainty at industry level in …
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The Varieties of Subjectivism: Keynes and Hayek on Expectations
Butos, William N.; Koppl, Roger G. - EconWPA - 1995
issues of time and uncertainty in economics. The source of the difference between their economic ideas was the difference …
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Monetary Policy In A World of Uncertainty
Issing, Otmar - In: Economie Internationale (2002) 92, pp. 165-179
Dealing with uncertainty is the daily bread of central bankers and has been a central theme for the ECB since its …
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rational inattention
Wiederholt, Mirko - Palgrave Macmillan
Economists have studied for a long time how decision-makers allocate scarce resources. The recent literature on rational inattention studies how decision-makers allocate the scarce resource attention. The idea is that decision-makers have a limited amount of attention and have to decide how to...
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Optimistic, but not in Control: Life-Orientation and the Theory of mixed Control
Urbig, Diemo; Monsen, Erik - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
Why are some people more optimistic about their life than others? Literature on locus of control suggests that optimism is associated with the belief that one’s life outcomes are controlled by internal factors, such as ability, instead of external factors, such as powerful others or...
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Decisões empresariais, expectativa e inflação
Aronovitch, Selmo - In: Nova Economia 2 (1991) 2, pp. 135-159
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Coordinating Agents' Actions: The Influence of Macroeconomic Information on Firm-Level Expectations.
Gregoir, S.; Lenglart, F. - 1999
We analyse individual qualitative answers to business survey questions on current and expected output. We assume that the economic environment entrepreneurs are facing can be decomposed into a common component and an idiosyncratic one. When answering the questionaire, entrepreneurs have...
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