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Optimal Investment under Partial Information

Björk, Tomas; Davis, Mark H.A.; Landén, Camilla - Economics Institute for Research (SIR), … - 2010

We consider the problem of maximizing terminal utility in a model where asset prices are driven by Wiener processes, but where the various rates of returns are allowed to be arbitrary semimartingales. The only information available to the investor is the one generated by the asset prices and, in...

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Gender differences in competitiveness and risk taking: comparing children in Colombia and Sweden

Cárdenas, Juan-Camilo; Dreber, Anna; von Essen, Emma; … - Economics Institute for Research (SIR), … - 2010

We explore gender differences in preferences for competition and risk among children aged 9-12 in Colombia and Sweden, two countries differing in gender equality according to macro indices. We include four types of tasks that vary in gender stereotyping when looking at competitiveness: running,...

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When Does the Price Affect the Taste? Results from a Wine Experiment

Almenberg, Johan - 2010

We designed an experiment that examines how knowledge about the price of a good, and the time at which the information is received, affects how the good is experienced. The good in question was wine, and the price was either high or low. Our results suggest that hosts offering wine to guests can...

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Testing Game Theory in the Field : Swedish LUPI Lottery Games

Ostling, Robert - 2010

Game theory is usually difficult to test precisely in the field because predictions typically depend sensitively on features that are not controlled or observed. We conduct one such test using field data from the Swedish lowest unique positive integer (LUPI) game. In the LUPI game, players pick...

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Testing for unit roots in nonlinear dynamic heterogeneous panels

He, Changli (contributor); Sandberg, Rickard (contributor) - 2005 - [Elektronische Ressource]

Economics, SSE/EFI Working Paper Series in Economics and Finance No. 580. (2005c …): �Inferenceforunitrootsinapanelsmoothtransitionautoregres- sive model where the time dimension is �xed,�Stockholm School of Economics, SSE/EFI Working Paper Series in Economics … Economic Statistics, Stockholm School of Economics, P. O. Box 6501, SE-113 83 Stockholm, Sweden SSE/EFI Working Paper Series in …

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Do hedonic price indexes change history? : the case of electrification

Edquist, Harald (contributor) - 2005 - [Elektronische Ressource], Rev. April 29, 2005

SSE/EFI Working Paper Series in Economics and Finance No. 586 February 2005 Do hedonic price indexes change …

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Learning to be prepared

Kets, Willemien (contributor); Voorneveld, Mark (contributor) - 2005 - [Elektronische Ressource]

, rules of thumb. SSE/EFI Working Paper Series in Economics and Finance 590, March 8, 2005 1Corresponding author. Address …

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Demand and distance : evidence on cross-border shopping

Asplund, Marcus (contributor); Friberg, Richard (contributor) - 2005 - [Elektronische Ressource]

Working Paper Series in Economics and Finance No 587 February, 2005 Abstract While many studies have documented … Richard Friberg ♠ Stockholm School of Economics and CEPR Fredrik Wilander Stockholm School of Economics SSE/EFI …

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Group selection and social preferences

Weibull, Jörgen (contributor); … - 2005 - [Elektronische Ressource], Rev. September 27, 2005

A large number of individuals are randomly matched into groups, where each group plays a finite symmetric game. Individuals breed true. The expected number of surviving offspring depends on own material payoff, but may also, due to cooperative breeding and/or reproductive competition, depend on...

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An axiomatization of minimal curb sets

Voorneveld, Mark (contributor); Kets, Willemien (contributor) - 2005 - [Elektronische Ressource], This version: March 23, 2005

classification: C72 Keywords: Minimal curb set; Consistency SSE/EFI Working Paper Series in Economics and Finance 589, March 4, 2005 …

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