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Understanding motivations in the workplace remains of utmost import as economies around the world rely on increases in labor productivity to foster sustainable economic growth. This study makes use of a unique opportunity to “look under the hood” of an organization that critically relies on...
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This paper uses a variety of data sources to study the effect of deregulation on the structure of wages in the airline industry. Microdata from the 1980 and 1990 Censuses show a 10 percent decline in the relative earnings of airline workers after deregulation, with roughly similar declines for...
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This paper reports estimates for the ex ante tradeoffs for three specific homeland security policies that all address a terrorist attack on commercial aircraft with shoulder mounted missiles. Our analysis focuses on the willingness to pay for anti-missile laser jamming countermeasures mounted on...
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In line with the fallacy of riskification of uncertainty by which decision makers believe that the effects of … markets, such as natural disasters, terrorist attacks, and financial crises—as a problem of risk management. This is … business continuity. Taken together, this article offers the foundation for a behaviorally plausible, decision …
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In this paper, we assess the degree to which four of the most commonly used models of risky decision making can explain … explain the decision-making behavior of the majority of our subjects. Surprisingly, we find that the choice behavior of the … of risky decision making …
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There is convincing experimental evidence that Expected Utility fails, but when does it fail, how severely, and for what fraction of subjects? We explore these questions using a novel measure we call the uncertainty equivalent. We find Expected Utility performs well away from certainty, but...
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This paper introduces the concept of standard risk aversion. A von Neumann-Morgenstern utility function has standard … risk aversion if any risk makes a small reduction in wealth more painful (in the sense of an increased reduction in … expected utility) also makes any undesirable, independent risk more painful. It is shown that, given monotonicity and concavity …
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The appeal of expected utility theory as a basis for a descriptive model of risky decision making has diminished is a … parametric model of risky decision making. Our results suggest that models which provide for probability transformations are most …-range probability than is proposed by the expected utility model and risk-seeking behavior over quot;long-shotquot; odds is common …
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reports on direct measures of preference parameters relating to risk tolerance, time preference, and intertemporal … of preference parameters display substantial heterogeneity. The majority of respondents fall into the least risk …-tolerant group, but a substantial minority display higher risk tolerance. The individual measures of intertemporal substitution and …
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This paper discusses how limited ability to assess patient risk of illness and predict treatment response may affect … afflict medical decision making, I apply basic decision theory to suggest reasonable decision criteria with well …
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