We present an overlapping-generations (OLG) macroeconomic model that applies a behavioral interpretation of preferences for goods that generate health risks. In this paper proneness to poor health is viewed as a cognitive miscalculation by economic agents between their expected health state over...

This paper demonstrates the equivalence between sets of linear inequalities and a variety of social choice problems, a fact which permits the solution of the problems using linear programming techniques. An important advantage of this approach is that the primal solution of the linear...

Nous exposons dans cet article les avancees de la theorie de la decision en environnement incertain au cours des vingt dernieres années. plus precisément, nous partons des modeles d'esperance (objective et subjective) d'utilite pour ensuite en presenter les generalisations recentes.

Five different methods of determining sap flow (SF), three based on heat pulse (compensation heat pulse, New Zealand--cHP-NZ; compensation heat pulse, Greenspan/Australia--cHP-G (South oriented), and cHP-G-EW (East and West oriented, average); non-compensation heat pulse, Ariel/Israel--ncHP),...