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This study measures the performance of U.S. firms initiating same-sex domestic partnership benefit (SSDPB) policies. The results show that holding these firms upon their SSDPB initiation in a calendar portfolio earns a four-factor annualized excess return (alpha) of approximately 10% over the...
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(MCDM) and multiattribute utility theory (MAUT) continue to be active areas of management science research and application …
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to this growth are multiple criteria decision making (MCDM) and multiattribute utility theory (MAUT). This paper comments …
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preference, while the constructive approach aims at building preferences by questioning the decision maker. We show that these …
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, and for multiattribute utility functions are presented. …This paper introduces a new parameter for measuring deterministic preference tradeoffs between pairs of attributes. In …
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This paper deals with a basic issue: How does one approach the problem of designing the "right" objective for a given resource allocation problem? The notion of what is right can be fairly nebulous; we consider two issues that we see as key: efficiency and fairness. We approach the problem of...
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combination of the six most important attributes that determine the purchase decision of buyers. The preference rating of the … respondents is then decomposed to yield part-worth utility for each attribute level. A regression analysis shows that the most …¡¦ expressed utility of the product purchased. By using a hold-out sample of respondents, a conjoint analysis has predicted the …
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preference judgments, and the analysis of risk attitudes. Two dozen utility assessment methods of which half appear for the first …This paper is a comprehensive study of methods for assessing unidimensional expected utility functions. The paper … describes the utility assessment process in decision analysis and then reviews problem formulation, sources of bias in …
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total or transitive. This means that most of the economic theory based on additive preferences - expected utility …, discounted utility - has been generalized to preferences which are not total or transitive. Other economic applications of the …
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