The measure of risk aversion
... Behavior under uncertainty and measurement of risk aversion are interesting yet challenging topics. In this thesis, I have intended to give insights into the theory of risk aversion developed so far. In the preliminary part, some useful definitions and theorems are given. In section 3, we start with ...
... Behavior under uncertainty and measurement of risk aversion are interesting yet challenging topics. In this thesis, I have intended to give insights into the theory of risk aversion developed so far. In the preliminary part, some useful definitions and theorems are given. In section 3, we start with ...
Proposal for Publication of New 25.211 and 25.212 as published in the Texas Register on September 24, 1999
... Purpose. The purpose of this section is to clearly state the terms and conditions that govern the interconnection and parallel operation of on-site distributed generation in order to implement PURA §39.101(b)(3), which entitles all Texas electric customers to access to on-site distributed generation ...
... Purpose. The purpose of this section is to clearly state the terms and conditions that govern the interconnection and parallel operation of on-site distributed generation in order to implement PURA §39.101(b)(3), which entitles all Texas electric customers to access to on-site distributed generation ...
Random Expected Utility,
... A random choice rule is extreme if extreme points of the choice set are chosen with probability 1. Extreme points are those elements of the choice problem that are unique optima for some von Neumann-Morgenstern utility function. Hence, if a random utility is regular, then the corresponding random c ...
... A random choice rule is extreme if extreme points of the choice set are chosen with probability 1. Extreme points are those elements of the choice problem that are unique optima for some von Neumann-Morgenstern utility function. Hence, if a random utility is regular, then the corresponding random c ...
From local to global additive representation
... explicitly derived results for rank-ordered sets within connected topological spaces. Primarily to help correcting the results of Chew and Epstein (1989b), Segal (1991) gave results for connected domains which satisfy some additional connectedness conditions [(2) and (3) below], for the special case ...
... explicitly derived results for rank-ordered sets within connected topological spaces. Primarily to help correcting the results of Chew and Epstein (1989b), Segal (1991) gave results for connected domains which satisfy some additional connectedness conditions [(2) and (3) below], for the special case ...
Theory of Consumer Behavior
... The main assumption or premises on which the cardinal utility analysis rests are as under. (i) Rationality. The consumer is rational. He seeks to maximize satisfaction from the limited income which is at his disposal. (ii) Utility is cardinally measurable. The utility can be measured in cardin ...
... The main assumption or premises on which the cardinal utility analysis rests are as under. (i) Rationality. The consumer is rational. He seeks to maximize satisfaction from the limited income which is at his disposal. (ii) Utility is cardinally measurable. The utility can be measured in cardin ...
Mechanism Design and Truthful Algorithms
... Mechanism Design Mechanism design is about designing games in which some desired objective is achieved when all players play selfishly. Reverse game theory: Rather than analyzing a given game, design one that fits your needs. In this talk, we will see several mechanisms where the best strategy is t ...
... Mechanism Design Mechanism design is about designing games in which some desired objective is achieved when all players play selfishly. Reverse game theory: Rather than analyzing a given game, design one that fits your needs. In this talk, we will see several mechanisms where the best strategy is t ...
Lecture 04: Risk Preferences and Risk Preferences and Expected
... Asset structure One risk free bond with net return rf One risky asset with random net return r (a =quantity of risky assets) ...
... Asset structure One risk free bond with net return rf One risky asset with random net return r (a =quantity of risky assets) ...
First Pages - Yale Economics
... We make countless decisions every day about how to allocate our scarce money and time. Should we buy a pizza or a hamburger? Buy a new car or fix our old one? Spend our income today or save for future consumption? Should we eat breakfast or sleep late? As we balance competing demands and desires, we ...
... We make countless decisions every day about how to allocate our scarce money and time. Should we buy a pizza or a hamburger? Buy a new car or fix our old one? Spend our income today or save for future consumption? Should we eat breakfast or sleep late? As we balance competing demands and desires, we ...
Research Articles Least convex capacitiesw
... A three-fold decomposition is proposed. The ranking of deterministic outcomes forms one component as in Debreu. The second is the decisionmaker's likelihood relation over events, or equivalently, his ranking of binary acts or bets. The third component is the `willingness to bet', as modeled by the ( ...
... A three-fold decomposition is proposed. The ranking of deterministic outcomes forms one component as in Debreu. The second is the decisionmaker's likelihood relation over events, or equivalently, his ranking of binary acts or bets. The third component is the `willingness to bet', as modeled by the ( ...
Social Preferences, Beliefs, and the Dynamics of Free Riding in
... Renner and Rupert Sausgruber (2009)). One type of social preference – long argued by social psychologists (e.g., Harold Kelley and Anthony Stahelski (1970)) – is many people’s propensity to cooperate (in lab and field environments) provided others cooperate as well (e.g., Sugden (1984); Joel Guttman ...
... Renner and Rupert Sausgruber (2009)). One type of social preference – long argued by social psychologists (e.g., Harold Kelley and Anthony Stahelski (1970)) – is many people’s propensity to cooperate (in lab and field environments) provided others cooperate as well (e.g., Sugden (1984); Joel Guttman ...
TRUTHFUL IMPLEMENTATION AND PREFERENCE
... of pairs and flexibility. These conditions are rather technical, but at this point we can say that they have the following character: given two (or in some cases three) alternatives and two (or in some cases three) individual preferences, there is another admissible preference that emphasizes the gi ...
... of pairs and flexibility. These conditions are rather technical, but at this point we can say that they have the following character: given two (or in some cases three) alternatives and two (or in some cases three) individual preferences, there is another admissible preference that emphasizes the gi ...
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... pervasive, and many economists thought that they had to take a stand on value neutrality. Sen's (1970) memorable text on collective choice might be one of the latest references dealing with the problem of what it means for economists to make value judgments and to be neutral as between values. Outmo ...
... pervasive, and many economists thought that they had to take a stand on value neutrality. Sen's (1970) memorable text on collective choice might be one of the latest references dealing with the problem of what it means for economists to make value judgments and to be neutral as between values. Outmo ...
Decision Analysis
... • We are interested in the value of the experiment. If the value is greater than the cost, then it is worthwhile to do the experiment. • Expected Value of Experimentation: ...
... • We are interested in the value of the experiment. If the value is greater than the cost, then it is worthwhile to do the experiment. • Expected Value of Experimentation: ...
INFORMS Tutorials in Operations Research Advances in Risk
... of the author’s lectures on risk-averse optimization. We hope that the readers will find it useful not only in their search for relevant literature but also for getting an overview of the area and its most important results. This paper has two main parts. In §2 we discuss risk-averse preferences—the ...
... of the author’s lectures on risk-averse optimization. We hope that the readers will find it useful not only in their search for relevant literature but also for getting an overview of the area and its most important results. This paper has two main parts. In §2 we discuss risk-averse preferences—the ...
Law and Preferences
... these wants.”), Sen (1995) (referring to environmental policy questions, Sen writes in pp. 17-18: “There are plenty of “social choice problems” in all this, but in analyzing them, we have to go beyond looking only for the best reflection of given preferences, or the most acceptable procedures for ch ...
... these wants.”), Sen (1995) (referring to environmental policy questions, Sen writes in pp. 17-18: “There are plenty of “social choice problems” in all this, but in analyzing them, we have to go beyond looking only for the best reflection of given preferences, or the most acceptable procedures for ch ...
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... • Minimax Regret (REG) is based on a different philosophy. It tries to hedge a DM’s bets, by doing reasonably well no matter what the actual state is. It is also a nonplausibilistic rule. As a first step to defining it, given a nonplausibilistic decision problem D = ((A, S, C), R, u), let u : S → U ...
... • Minimax Regret (REG) is based on a different philosophy. It tries to hedge a DM’s bets, by doing reasonably well no matter what the actual state is. It is also a nonplausibilistic rule. As a first step to defining it, given a nonplausibilistic decision problem D = ((A, S, C), R, u), let u : S → U ...
Overcoming Incentive Constraints by Linking Decisions
... mechanism simplifies to Townsend’s in his special context. McAfee’s mechanism, although different in structure, would lead to approximately the same outcomes as a version of our linking mechanism that sought to give objects to agents with the highest valuation. However, their results give little ind ...
... mechanism simplifies to Townsend’s in his special context. McAfee’s mechanism, although different in structure, would lead to approximately the same outcomes as a version of our linking mechanism that sought to give objects to agents with the highest valuation. However, their results give little ind ...
Appealing a Rate Change Decision
... The undersigned ratepayers of XYZ Water Supply Corporation hereby appeal the decision of the board of directors of the Corporation affecting the rates charged to them by XYZ Water Supply Corporation. The rate change was effective on September 1, 2000, and affected the rates charged for water utility ...
... The undersigned ratepayers of XYZ Water Supply Corporation hereby appeal the decision of the board of directors of the Corporation affecting the rates charged to them by XYZ Water Supply Corporation. The rate change was effective on September 1, 2000, and affected the rates charged for water utility ...
Expected Uncertain Utility Theory,
... (i) For every event A, there exists some event B such that 1’s prior of A is equal to 2’s prior of B. Hence, both decision makers perceive the same range of uncertainty. (ii) Two decision makers have the same uncertainty attitude (the same von NeumannMorgenstern index) if and only if 1’s certainty e ...
... (i) For every event A, there exists some event B such that 1’s prior of A is equal to 2’s prior of B. Hence, both decision makers perceive the same range of uncertainty. (ii) Two decision makers have the same uncertainty attitude (the same von NeumannMorgenstern index) if and only if 1’s certainty e ...
Ethics of the Discount Rate in the Stern Review on the Economics of
... to it, devoted considerable attention to the ethical issues involved in the choice of the discount rate. For this represents the economist’s trade-off between the welfare of different generations and is hence the key to the way that different distributions of consumption over time can be ranked in t ...
... to it, devoted considerable attention to the ethical issues involved in the choice of the discount rate. For this represents the economist’s trade-off between the welfare of different generations and is hence the key to the way that different distributions of consumption over time can be ranked in t ...
Hedonic adaptation and the role of decision and experience utility in
... Kahneman has proposed experience utility as an alternative welfare criterion for public policy. As we discuss in Section 2, we share Kahneman's misgivings about notions of welfare that uncritically accept what people choose as the normative standard for public policy. Standard notions of welfare, ba ...
... Kahneman has proposed experience utility as an alternative welfare criterion for public policy. As we discuss in Section 2, we share Kahneman's misgivings about notions of welfare that uncritically accept what people choose as the normative standard for public policy. Standard notions of welfare, ba ...
A Subjective Foundation of Objective Probability
... and continuous, but otherwise incomplete and/or fail probabilistic sophistication. The central tool in our analysis is a new subjective ergodic theorem which takes as primitive preferences, rather than probabilities (as in standard ergodic theory). Using this theorem, we identify the i.i.d. parametr ...
... and continuous, but otherwise incomplete and/or fail probabilistic sophistication. The central tool in our analysis is a new subjective ergodic theorem which takes as primitive preferences, rather than probabilities (as in standard ergodic theory). Using this theorem, we identify the i.i.d. parametr ...
Utility Theory
... 3.4. Note on foundations of utility theory John Von Neumann and Oskar Morgenstern showed in 1947 how simple rationality assumptions could imply that any decision-makers' risk preferences should be consistent with utility theory. In this section, we discuss a simplified version of their argument, whi ...
... 3.4. Note on foundations of utility theory John Von Neumann and Oskar Morgenstern showed in 1947 how simple rationality assumptions could imply that any decision-makers' risk preferences should be consistent with utility theory. In this section, we discuss a simplified version of their argument, whi ...
Preference (economics)
In economics and other social sciences, preference is the peculiar ordering of alternatives, based on their relative utility, a process which results in an optimal ""choice"" (whether real or theoretical). The character of the individual preferences is determined purely by taste factors, independent of considerations of prices, income, or availability of goods.With the help of the scientific method many practical decisions of life can be modelled, resulting in testable predictions about human behavior. Although economists are usually not interested in the underlying causes of the preferences in themselves, they are interested in the theory of choice because it serves as a background for empirical demand analysis.