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precious metals (that is, gold, silver, platinum and palladium), while accounting for geopolitics within a multivariate system …
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There is an increasing interest in the concept of social exclusion and the related concept of social isolation and their potential role in understanding inequality. We examine the degree to which voluntary separation from social activities during adolescence affects adult wages. It is well-known...
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process by which beliefs are generated and justified. We argue that the Bayesian approach is unsatisfactory for this purpose …, for several reasons. First, the Bayesian approach begins with a prior, and models only a very limited form of learning …, namely, Bayesian updating. Thus, it is inherently incapable of describing the formation of prior beliefs. Second, there are …
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We study the pricing of political uncertainty in a general equilibrium model of government policy choice. We find that political uncertainty commands a risk premium whose magnitude is larger in poorer economic conditions. Political uncertainty reduces the value of the implicit put protection...
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This short note presents the R package AdMit which provides flexible functions to approximate a certain target distribution and it provides an efficient sample of random draws from it, given only a kernel of the target density function. The estimation procedure is fully automatic and thus avoids...
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There is an increasing interest in the concept of social exclusion and the related concept of social isolation and their potential role in understanding inequality. We examine the degree to which voluntary separation from social activities during adolescence affects adult wages. It is well-known...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005126680
between rational and irrational beliefs. Relatedly, the Bayesian approach, when applied to the Grand State Space, is … because there are many situations in which there is not sufficient information for an individual to generate a Bayesian prior …. It follows that the Bayesian approach is neither sufficient not necessary for the rationality of beliefs. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005126724
Economic modeling assumes, for the most part, that agents are Bayesian, that is, that they entertain probabilistic …
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Economic modeling assumes, for the most part, that agents are Bayesian, that is, that they entertain probabilistic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005102106
process by which beliefs are generated and justified. We argue that the Bayesian approach is unsatisfactory for this purpose …, for several reasons. First, the Bayesian approach begins with a prior, and models only a very limited form of learning …, namely, Bayesian updating. Thus, it is inherently incapable of describing the formation of prior beliefs. Second, there are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005109592