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Showing 1 to 20 of 132 for “"Expected Utility"”.
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A Subjective Expected Utility Model of Altruism
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From Subjective Expected Utility Theory to Bounded Rationality
As mentioned in the introduction, the objective of this work has been to get a more realistic understanding of economic decision making processes by adopting an interdisciplinary approach which takes into consideration at the same time economic and psychological issues. The research in particular …
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Expected-Cost - Minimizing Search and Expected-Utility - Maximizing Search
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Optimal portfolio choice : beyond the traditional expected utility maximization paradigm
… by new contributions in the area of calculating expected functionals of the optimal wealth in a log-normal market. The available theory behind the risk budgeting approach is revisited, with the main arguments for and against the approach explained. The equally weighted portfolio, referred to as …
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The impact of perceived design similarity and consumers' IPR morality on their expected utility of legally copied products
… aimed to explore how consumers perceive the utility of LCPs and how much they are willing to purchase LCPs through the lens of decision theory in the philosophy literature, utilizing the expected utility concept. This study collected 314 U.S. female consumers who were over 18 and conducted …
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Optimal Plan Design and Dynamic Asset Allocation of Defined Contribution Pension Plans: Lessons from Behavioural Finance and Non-expected Utility Theories
… theory. In this thesis two alternative utility forms are considered: loss aversion and Epstein-Zin recursive utility. We develop a dynamic-programming-based numerical model with uninsurable stochastic labour income and borrowing constraints. In the loss aversion case, members are assumed …
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Harvesting behavior of perennial cash crops: a decision theoretic study
… significantly related to harvesting behavior. Expected utility theory, expected profit maximization, and a lexicographic safety-first model were used to predict farmer behavior. The expected utility approach used the exponential utility function, the quadratic utility function, and the cubic …
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Portofolio behaviour of scheduled banks of Pakistan
… emphasis has given to the mean-variance form of expected utility and safety first Principle. Both static and dynamic versions of these models are examined. It is observed that these types of models, generally, perform well in terms of the traditional “goodness of fit” measures. Theoretical …
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Essays on Futures Trading Under Non-Standard Assumptions
… models and contrast them to the standard utility model in futures markets. Specifically the rationality assumption is relaxed and more reasonable assumptions about agents' decision context are considered in three studies on the behavior of hedgers and traders. Hedging behavior in futures …
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Experiential and Neurobiological Influences on Economic Preferences and Risky Decision Making
… with stable preferences and try to maximize the expected utility when facing risky decision-making problems, behavioral economics and neuroeconomics offer research strategies that help us explore the factors that influence economic preferences and risky decision-making process. This dissertation …
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Decision Analysis in Fire Safety Engineering - Analysing Investments in Fire Safety
… decision theory (the principle of maximising expected utility) were suggested for use in the present context. Together with a model for calculating the expected utility of a specific investment, they provide an evaluatory framework for the analysis of investments in fire safety. The major …
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Preference modelling approaches based on cumulative functions using simulation with applications
… Mean Variance Model (MVM) consistent with Expected Utility Theory (EUT) plays an important role in ranking preferences for various alternative options. Despite its wide use, this model is appropriate only when random variables representing the alternative options are normally distributed …
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Essays on Economic Decision Making
… moves. In this chapter, a player follows Choquet Expected Utility preferences, since the standard Expected Utility cannot explain the situations of ambiguity. I raise the issue that dynamically inconsistent decision making can be derived in extensive-form games with ambiguity. To cope with this …
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Essays on contract theory and behavioral economics
… manipulate their memories. It leads to a non-expected utility representation and provides a unified explanation for several empirical regularities: non-linear probability weights, small-stakes risk aversion, regret and the competence hypothesis. It also leads to endowment and sunk cost …
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Essays on signaling games under ambiguity
… where the players are assumed to be Choquet expected utility maximizers a la Schmeidler (1989). The sender sends an ambiguous message to the receiver who updates his non-additive belief according to a f-Bayesian updating rule of Gilboa and Schmeidler (1993). When the types are unambiguous in …
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Essays on Public Choice
… the officials that maximizes ordinary citizens' expected utility.
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Theory of Decision Based on Structural Health Monitoring
… rather than on rigorous evaluations of the expected monitoring system effectiveness. In this doctoral thesis, I apply expected utility theory for the development of decision support systems to be used in structural health monitoring and I develop a procedure for the design of structural …
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Consumers' purchasing behaviour under risk and uncertainty: three essays on food authenticity
… with standard theories of decision making (i.e. Expected Utility Theory and Subjective Expected Utility Theory). In the HGV setting, non-monetary lotteries are used. Participants bid for a high-quality seafood product, but there is a chance (known or unknown) they receive a lower quality seafood …
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Controlled and automatic processes in Pavlovian-instrumental transfer
… S-O-R account of PIT against a propositional expected utility theory, which suggests that PIT effects reflect verbalizable inferences about the probability and value of each outcome. Chapter 1 reviews the relevant literature. Chapters 2-4 then report 11 experiments that aimed to set the S-O-R …
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Fighting for frames or prospects for peace? : building a prospect theory model of ethnic civil war termination
… for one side. Recently, scholars have employed expected utility theory and the security dilemma to construct models of how ethnic combatants choose between settling their differences at the bargaining table or on the battlefield. Rooted in the rational choice paradigm, these models draw upon …
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