The concepts of the traditional theory of demand have not been found suitable for realistic studies of consumers' behaviour. Since 1954, however, new lines of exploration have evolved, of which that of Professor Jean Stoetzel has proved most fruitful. The idea that, since price served as a...

The expected absolute return belongs to a class of risk measure derived by Luce (1980) from axioms. The paper considers the time series properties of and also the marginal distribution properties, for various properties of ?. Using a long daily stock index series it is found that the...

Many observed macrovariables are simple aggregates over a large number of microunits. It is pointed out that the generating process of the macrovariables is largely determined by the common factors in the generating mechanisms of the microvariables, even though these factors may be very...