'A New Idea Does Not Come Forth in Its Mature Scientific Form. It Contains Logical Ambiguities Or Errors; the Evidence on Which It Rests Is Incomplete Or Indecisive; and Its Domain of Application Is Exaggerated in Certain Directions and Overlooked in Others', Wrote Stigler (1965, P.14) in One of...

We employ the theory of rational choice to examine whether observable choices from feasible sets of prospects can be generated by the optimization of some underlying decision criterion under uncertainty. Rather than focusing on a specific theory of choice, our objective is to formulate a general...

In 1972, Dreze and Modigliani Generalized the Line of Research Initiated by Leland [5] and Sandmo [8] on the Effects of Income Risk on Consumption. They Gave Necessary and Sufficient Conditions for Consumption to Decrease Under Income Risk. However, They Did Not Cover Extensively the Case of...

We Show That a Box-Cox Transformation on the Dependent Variable of Linear Regression Models Is Invariant to Power Transformations of That Variable Even Without the Presence of a Regression Constant And, Consequently, Can Sometimes Be Interpreted As a Simple Power Transformation the Estimation of...

In this article we study the effect of uncertainty on an entrepreneur who must choose the capacity of his business before knowing the demand for his product. The unit profit of operation is known with certainty but there is no flexibility in our one-period framework. We show how the introduction...

Uncertainties as to future supply costs of nonrenewable natural resources, such as oil and gas, raise the issue of the choice of supply sources. In a perfectly deterministic world, an efficient use of multiple sources of supply requires that any given market exhausts the supply it can draw from...