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Sind landwirtschaftliche Unternehmer bei Zinssätzen zahlenblind? – Erste empirische Ergebnisse –
Musshoff, Oliver; Hirschauer, Norbert; Wassmuss, Harm - 2009
Landwirte wechseln oft nicht von ihrer Hausbank zu einer anderen Bank, auch wenn diese bessere Konditionen bietet. Diese „Wechselträgheit“ kann zum einen in den Transaktionskosten des Wechsels begründet sein. Zum anderen kann sie aber auch das Ergebnis begrenzt rationalen...
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ASYMMETRY IN RAW MILK SAFETY PERCEPTIONS AND INFORMATION: IMPLICATIONS FOR RISK IN FRESH PRODUCE MARKETING AND POLICY
Knutson, Ronald D.; Currier, Russell W.; Ribera, Luis; … - 2010
Scientific evidence clearly indicates that consumption of raw milk carries substantialdisease-inducing health risks. While federal U.S. policy mandates that milk moving in interstatecommerce be pasteurized; within 41 of 50 states, raw milk can be obtained for consumption.Warning labels...
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Learning to play best response in duopoly games
Wenzelburger, Jan - 2003
We consider a quantity-setting duopoly market where firms lack perfect knowledge of the market demand function. They use estimated and therefore misspecified demand functions instead and determine their optimal strategies from the corresponding subjective payoff functions. The central issue of...
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An Experimental Study of Executive Decision-making with Implications for Decision Support
Ow, Terence T; Morris, James G - 2010
Past research in the field of information systems has explored factors and conditions that are relevant to decision-making in many contexts. However, very little is known about how executives consider, weigh, and integrate these factors. One current school of thought holds that intuition and...
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Price adjustments in a general model of state-dependent pricing
Costain, James S.; Nakov, Anton - 2008
In this paper, we show that a simple model of smoothly state-dependent pricing generates a distribution of price adjustments similar to that observed in microeconomic data, both for low and high inflation. Our setup is based on one fundamental assumption: price adjustment is more likely when it...
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AN APPLICATION OF GAME THEORY: FUNDING INTERDEPENDENT MC and A UPGRADE DECISIONS
B. G. SCOTT - 2008
required to take into account the decisions of others, the process can be modeled as a game. Game theory has been previously be … the strategy of others. In this paper, the application of game theory in the context of MC&A upgrades is discussed …. By demonstrating the application of game theory to a nontraditional environment that may require MC&A upgrades, this work …
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Alternative comparison, analysis, and evaluation of solid waste and materials system alternatives
Brothers, A.J. - 2009
This paper presents a comprehensive analysis of the impact of solid waste technical options on values and objectives that are important to the public. It is written in support of the Solid Waste and Materials Systems Alternatives Study (WHC, 1995). Described are the values that were identified,...
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Industrial Partnership Prosperity Game{trademark}
Boyak, K.; Berman, M.; Beck, D. - 2009
Prosperity Games TM are an outgrowth and adaptation move/countermove and seminar War Games. Prosperity Games TM are simulations that explore complex issues in a variety of areas including economics, politics, sociology, environment, education, and research. These issues can be examined from a...
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Treaty verification with an uncertain partner
Weissenberger, S. - 2008
A simple model is used to analyze the performance of a system for verifying compliance with an arms control treaty. Blue and Red are partners in to a treaty. Blue prefers to comply, but is uncertain whether Red similarly prefers compliance (in the absence of threatened violation detection)....
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Continuous game dynamics: an experimental study.
Patelli, P.; Sato, Yuzuru - 2010
In this paper we study an experiment with human agents strategically interacting in a game characterized by continuous time and continuous strategy space. The research is focused in studying the agents interaction dynamic under different experimental settings. The agents play a two person game...
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