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.Kulatilaka and Perotti [1998, Management Science] nd that, in a two-period model, increased product market uncertainty could … increases with uncertainty.In contrast with the two-period model, despite the existence of the strategic option of becoming a … market leader due to a lower marginal cost, more uncertainty always increases the expected time to invest.Furthermore, it is …
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Short-term performance of a production management system for make-to-stock factories may be quantified through the service rate per shift; long-term performance through the average monthly work in process (WIP). This may yield, for example, that WIP is minimized, while the probability of the...
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Organization), the analysis of the e.ects of uncertainty within this field is yet underdeveloped.This paper shows that the new … regarding asymmetry, technology adoption and decreasing uncertainty over time are reviewed.Among others, it is found that the …
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This paper presents a model for the "gambling effect," i.e., the effect that risky gambles are evaluated differently than riskless outcomes due to an intrinsic utility (or disutility) of gambling.The model turns out to violate stochastic dominance and therefore its primary applications will be...
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We examine contributions to a public good when some donors do not know the true value of the good.If donors in such an environment determine the sequence of moves, two contribution orders may arise as equilibria.Either the uninformed and informed donors contribute simultaneously or the informed...
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This paper analyzes the effect of monetary uncertainty on the inflationary bias and the variance of output and … inflation. Monetary policy uncertainty is modeled as a shock to the central banker’s preference for inflation stabilization … increase with the variance of this preference shock. However, unlike other studies, we find that monetary uncertainty may very …
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toward uncertainty.Unlike previous models of innovation, the firm-formation process is endogenous.An entrepreneur, who owns … residual profits, utilizes an uncertain technology and hires a worker who may only be partially isolated from uncertainty … the nature of the firm. The relationship between technological uncertainty and the nature of the firm is able to explain …
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argument becomes defensible after the relationship between risk and uncertainty is understood, after the dynamic interaction of …
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