In this paper, a model of bounded rational investors investing their portfolio in a passive investment vehicle (e.g., an Exchange Traded Fund replicating a broad index) or an actively managed fund is presented. The model proposes that the quick reswitching of these short-term oriented investors...

Im Beitrag wird die Anwendbarkeit der in den Sozialwissenschaften prominenten Theorie der Rationalen Wahl auf die Erklärung von Entscheidungen zu multilokalem Wohnen diskutiert. Hierfür werden zunächst die zentralen Grundannahmen dargelegt, wonach Akteure danach streben, ihre Präferenzen und...

Economists typically evaluate policies based on how such policies affect individuals' utilities. We follow this approach by taking a welfarist view of the USA's espoused policy of promoting liberty in other parts of the world. However, we take a nuanced view by investigating the type of welfare...

We study the problem of allocating a bundle of perfectly divisible private goods from an axiomatic point of view, in situations where compensations can be made through monetary transfers. The key property we impose on the allocation rule requires that no agent should be able to gain by...