This article shows that an apparent puzzle in finance and accounting is resolved by changing from classical to constructive (more specifically, intuitionistic) mathematics. Our position is that it is unproblematic if real-world actors behave inconsistently with nonconstructive mathematical...

This article develops a method for drawing samples from a distribution with no finite quantiles or moments. The method provides researchers with a way to give subjects the experience of ambiguity. In any experiment, learning the distribution from experience is impossible for the subjects,...

This article finds that the use of a harmonized accounting standard, such as the International Financial Reporting Standards, increases the information available to markets only if institutional differences across countries using the harmonized standard are insignificant. In all other cases,...

This paper studies trade in a first-price sealed bid auction where agents know only a range of possible payoffs. The setting is one in which a winner's curse arises, so that if agents have common risk preferences and common priors, then expected utility theory leads to a prediction of no trade....