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How to compensate people who provide relevant information to a decision-maker who faces uncertainty?This paper suggests …
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Economics, and other fields of social science are often criticized as unscientific for their apparent failures to formulate universal laws governing human societies. Whether economics is truly a science is one of the oldest questions. This paper attempts to create such universal laws, and...
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Why would social science need the help from quantum mechanics? First, there are many unanswerable questions in social science. Are financial markets predictable? How to predict the financial markets? These important questions are not answerable in the existing framework of finance or economics....
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invalidates many popular economic theories and models, and concludes that the existing economics is not really a science without …
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will be the one to provide information resolving consumer uncertainty about their quality preferences. In the analysis, we … incentive to provide information resolving consumer preference uncertainty than otherwise. The model is also adapted to examine …This paper examines the interaction of information provision, product quality, and pricing decisions by competitive …
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The quantification of entropy has prominence in a diverse range of fields of study including information theory … random object as a measurement of the uncertainty about its outcome. This measurement is expected to decrease when the object … measures of uncertainty. In this paper, we give a necessary and sufficient condition for the Shannon entropy of an absolutely …
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the last decade large efforts have been made to increase the availability of information to travelers by means of advanced … traveler information systems (ATIS). This paper reviews economic aspects of information in transport markets. First, I will … discuss information acquisition from an economics perspective by characterizing costs and benefits of information, leading to …
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information technologies. The objective of this paper is to offer an economic approach which is better suited to understanding …
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Criminals who wear gang colors are acting in a surprisingly brazen way which must increase the probability of being caught and punished by the police.  In our model this brazen behavior is a solution to an enforcement problem.  The central idea is that less able criminals see lower gains from...
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