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Weber's Law and the Biological Evolution of Risk Preferences: The Selective Dominance of the Logarithmic Utility Function
Sinn, Hans-Werner - CESifo - 2002
biological selection process in the sense that a population following any other preference for decision-making under risk will …
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Weber's law and the biological evolution of risk preferences : the selective dominance of the logarithmic utility function
Sinn, Hans-Werner - 2002
biological selection process in the sense that a population following any other preference for decision-making under risk will …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011541191
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On the biological foundation of risk preferences
Robatto, Roberto; Szentes, Balàzs - In: Journal of economic theory 172 (2017), pp. 410-422
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An information-based model for the differential treatment of gains and losses
Nagar, Venky; Rajan, Madhav V.; Ray, Korok - In: Review of accounting studies 23 (2018) 2, pp. 622-653
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An evolutionary explanation of the Allais paradox
Levy, Moshe - In: Journal of evolutionary economics 32 (2022) 5, pp. 1545-1574
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Women in a men's world : risk taking in an online card game community
Czibor, Eszter; Claussen, Jörg; Praag, Mirjam van - In: Journal of economic behavior & organization : JEBO 158 (2019), pp. 62-89
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The roles of risk preferences, selection, and uncertain returns on land contracts
Lee, Jun Yeong; Durbahn, Grant; Orazem, Peter F.; … - In: Agricultural economics : the journal of the … 54 (2023) 2, pp. 220-233
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The role of risk preferences, selection, and uncertain returns on land contracts
Lee, Jun Yeong; Durbahn, Grant; Orazem, Peter F.; … - 2023
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014286081
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Bootstrapping Knowledge About Social Phenomena Using Simulation Models
Edmonds, Bruce - In: Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation 13 (2010) 1, pp. 8-8
There are considerable difficulties in the way of the development of useful and reliable simulation models of social phenomena, including that any simulation necessarily includes many assumptions that are not directly supported by evidence. Despite these difficulties, many still hope to develop...
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Alchian and 'the Alchian thesis'
Kay, Neil - In: Journal of Economic Methodology 2 (1995) 2, pp. 281-286
Armen Alchian's article 'Uncertainty, evolution and economic theory' is widely acknowledged as a classic contribution … natural selection produce profit-maximising firms, and this in turn has been widely labelled 'The Alchian-Friedman Argument …' or 'The Alchian thesis' in the economic literature. In fact, 'The Alchian thesis' - that natural selection produces …
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