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Do social preferences matter in competitive markets?
Heidhues, Paul; Riedel, Frank - 2007
Experimental evidence stresses the importance of so-called social preferences for understanding economic behavior. Social preferences are defined over the entire allocation in a given economic environment, and not just over one's own consumption as is traditionally presumed. We study the...
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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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Beyond k-Anonymity: A Decision Theoretic Framework for Assessing Privacy Risk
Lebanon, Guy; Scannapieco, Monica; Fouad, Mohamed; … - 2009
, based on statistical decision theory, that assesses the relationship between the disclosed data and the resulting privacy …
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14.123 Microeconomic Theory III, Spring 2009
Eso, Peter - 2009
This half-semester course discusses decision theory and topics in game theory. We present models of individual decision …, supermodularity, monotone comparative statics, background risk, game theory, rationalizability, iterated strict dominance multi …-stage games, sequential equilibrium, trembling-hand perfection, stability, signaling games, theory of auctions, global games …
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The Role of Exchange Rates in the Intertemporal Risk-Return Relation in International Economies
Bali, Turan G.; Wu, Liuren - 2005
This paper investigates the role of currency denomination in the the intertemporal risk-return relation among G7 countries. Similar to the findings of previous studies, our estimation also shows that the financial markets of the G7 countries are integrated. We obtain significant pricing...
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The Aggregate Dynamics of Capital Structure and Macroeconomic Risk
Bhamra, Harjoat S.; Kuehn, Lars-Alexander; Strebulaev, … - 2008
We study the impact of time-varying macroeconomic conditions on optimal dynamic capital structure and the aggregate dynamics of firms in a cross-section. Our structural-equilibrium framework embeds a contingent-claim corporate financing model within a standard consumption-based asset- pricing...
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