With the increased awareness of productivity problems in healthcare operations, many researchers have proposed the implementation of tools and methods developed in other fields to benefit healthcare delivery. Accordingly, we present in this paper an exploratory work using a hypothetical example...

Статья посвящена проблемам устойчивого развития молокоперерабатывающих предприятий, при условии, что поставщики сырого молока могут находиться в различных...

New perspectives on consumption-based asset pricing models have recently been argued to provide powerful insights for explaining the cross-sectional variation of expected returns. In this paper, we employ both Spanish and U.S. capital markets data to present further evidence on these new...

Suppose that your choice between uncertain financial prospects is made more difficult by two independent contextual uncertainties concerning the size of your existing wealth. One contextual uncertainty has a greater spread than the other. If you could resolve one of these contextual...

This paper examines the effect of alternative utility functions and parameter values on the optimal composition of a risky investment portfolio. Normally distributed assets are the setting for the theoretical and empirical analyses. The results agree well with the available theory and imply...

Noncompensatory decision making forms a core part of poliheuristic theory. At the same time, decision making under constraints is a common view among expected utility theorists. It is argued that poliheuristic theory permits one to endogenize constraints. Views about the rules ofwar are used to...