In 1972, Dreze and Modigliani Generalized the Line of Research Initiated by Leland [5] and Sandmo [8] on the Effects of Income Risk on Consumption. They Gave Necessary and Sufficient Conditions for Consumption to Decrease Under Income Risk. However, They Did Not Cover Extensively the Case of...

We employ the theory of rational choice to examine whether observable choices from feasible sets of prospects can be generated by the optimization of some underlying decision criterion under uncertainty. Rather than focusing on a specific theory of choice, our objective is to formulate a general...

Uncertainties as to future supply costs of nonrenewable natural resources, such as oil and gas, raise the issue of the choice of supply sources. In a perfectly deterministic world, an efficient use of multiple sources of supply requires that any given market exhausts the supply it can draw from...

In this article we study the effect of uncertainty on an entrepreneur who must choose the capacity of his business before knowing the demand for his product. The unit profit of operation is known with certainty but there is no flexibility in our one-period framework. We show how the introduction...