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Predict-AI-bility of How Humans Balance Self-interest With the Interest of Others
Capraro, Valerio; Di Paolo, Roberto; Pizziol, Veronica - 2023
Generative artificial intelligence holds enormous potential to revolutionize decision-making processes, from everyday to high-stake scenarios. However, as many decisions carry social implications, for AI to be a reliable assistant for decision-making it is crucial that it is able to capture the...
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Assessing Systemic Risk Due to Fire Sales Spillover Through Maximum Entropy Network Reconstruction
Di Gangi, Domenico - 2018
constrained minimization of the Cross Entropy, we show that it is possible to assess aggregated and single bank's systemicness and … our approach with an alternative widespread application of the Maximum Entropy principle allowing to derive graph …
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Women's potential earnings distributions
Maasoumi, Esfandiar; Wang, Le - In: Essays in honor of M. Hashem Pesaran : panel modeling, …, (pp. 229-252). 2022
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013194128
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Inequality in energy consumption : statistical equilibrium or a question of accounting conventions?
Semieniuk, Gregor; Weber, Isabella - 2019
Mitigating climate change requires information about the inequality in energy consumption. Recent contributions … (Banerjee and Yakovenko, 2010; Lawrence et al., 2013; Yakovenko, 2010, 2013) have studied energy inequality through the lens of … maximum entropy. They claim a weighted international distribution of total primary energy demand should approach a Boltzmann …
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Minimally Disproportional Representation : Generalized Entropy and Stolarsky Mean-Divisor Methods of Apportionment
Lauwers, Luc; Van Puyenbroeck, Tom - 2009
generalized logarithmic mean coincides with minimizing a generalized entropy inequality measure. The Balinski-Young 'favoring … aggregate measures of seat/vote disproportionality of the generalized entropy family: using a divisor method based upon such a … small states' - ordering ranks the generalized entropy methods. This framework improves upon an inconsistency in the …
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Informational Separability and Entropy
Tian, Jianrong - 2022
differentiates a subset of states in experiments. With three or more states, informational separability leads to entropy measures …
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Equivalence scales reconsidered: an empirical investigation
Bönke, Timm; Schröder, Carsten - 2007
, a reliable assessment of inequality in living standards, therefore, necessitates the conversion of the original … conversion strategy, and explain our results by means of an inequality decomposition by population subgroups. …
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Equivalence scales reconsidered an empirical investigation
Bönke, Timm; Schröder, Carsten - 2007
, a reliable assessment of inequality in living standards, therefore, necessitates the conversion of the original … conversion strategy, and explain our results by means of an inequality decomposition by population subgroups. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010324347
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Well-Being Inequality and Reference Groups - An Agenda for New Research
van Praag, Bernard M.S. - 2010
well-being is much less investigated. It is argued that the concept of well-being inequality cannot be properly defined … concept of inequality in happiness or SWB. Finally, we plead for an extension of the present happiness paradigm by setting up …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325687
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Sectorial shifts and inequality: How to relate macroeconomic events to inequality changes
Villalobos Barría, Carlos - 2012
This paper presents a way to explore how macroeconomic shifts cause inequality changes. It is based on the backwardness … control over the direct impact on inequality changes caused by macroeconomic changes that affects the relative competitiveness … inequality in a context of capital-skill complementarity and imperfect mobility of workers. The main conclusion of this paper is …
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