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The paper lists salient characteristics of the certainty theory of consumer choice and discusses the import of … prominent empirical analyses of the theory. All of them reject the theory's empirical relevance which suggests that the theory … is unfit to analyze consumer choice in an uncertain world. The paper presents an extension of the certainty theory to a …
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In statistics, samples are drawn from a population in a data-generating process (DGP). Standard errors measure the uncertainty in estimates of population parameters. In science, evidence is generated to test hypotheses in an evidence-generating process (EGP). We claim that EGP variation across...
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Smith, Keynes, and Knight, in that order, made seminal contributions to decision making which emphasized uncertainty and indeterminate probabilities, as opposed to mere imprecision. De Finetti’s views on uncertainty are diametrically opposed to those of Smith, Keynes, and Knight once the clear...
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mathematically by intervals; (c) that uncertainty came in degrees or gradations; (d) that the mathematical theory of probability …
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Macroeconomic models that are based on either the rational expectations hypothesis (REH) or behavioral considerations share a core premise: All future market outcomes can be characterized ex ante with a single overarching probability distribution. This paper assesses the empirical relevance of...
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A behaviour of economic agents in many respects depends on taking into account those conditions that have appeared around them. Traditionally, to such conditions, researchers have referred the uncertainty and factors of the institutional control, often projected on a value of the transaction...
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It is well-known that outliers exist in the type of multivariate data used by financial practitioners for portfolio construction and risk management. Typically, outliers are addressed prior to model fitting by applying some combination of trimming and/or Winsorization to each individual...
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For more than thirty years, scholars have investigated the connection between corporate sustainability and financial performance. In 2016, Khan, Serafeim, and Yoon published what appeared to be a major breakthrough in this quest. They reported that guidance from the Sustainability Accounting...
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