This paper considers the labor market and distributional implications of a scenario of ever-more-intelligent autonomous machines that substitute for human labor and drive down wages. We lay out three concerns arising from such a scenario and evaluate recent predictions and objections to these...

This article presents an equilibrium-based multi-agent optimal consumption and portfolio problem incorporating sentiments, where multiple agents have heterogeneous (optimistic, pessimistic, neutral) views on fundamental risks represented by Brownian motions.Each agent maximizes its expected...

A central mission of public economics has been to determine policies that optimize utilitarian welfare. To improve the realism of policy evaluation, it is desirable to enrich understanding of behavior and develop methods of analysis that use the enriched understanding to assess policies....

Nutzen und Gemeinwohl -- Kollektiventscheidungen, Demokratie und Gemeinwohl -- Wohlfahrtsfunktionen und ökonomische Vorstellungen von Gerechtigkeit -- Wohlfahrtsmessung -- Nachhaltigkeit und wirtschaftliche Entwicklung -- Alternative Wirtschaftsmodelle.

This paper is about the nonparametric regression of a choice variable on a nonlinear budget set under utility maximization with general heterogeneity, i.e. in the random utility model (RUM). We show that utility maximization and convex budget sets make this regression three dimensional with a...

Studie mit finanzieller Unterstützung der IHK für München und Oberbayern im Rahmen des Vertrags zur Erstellung volkswirtschaftlicher Studien. Die Bedeutung der Datenökonomie für die Entwicklung der Wirtschaftsleistung in Deutschland und Europa ist unbestritten. In verschiedenen Märkten...

Studie mit finanzieller Unterstützung der IHK für München und Oberbayern im Rahmen des Vertrags zur Erstellung volkswirtschaftlicher Studien. Die Bedeutung der Datenökonomie für die Entwicklung der Wirtschaftsleistung in Deutschland und Europa ist unbestritten. In verschiedenen Märkten...

Applied research often tolerates misspecification in order to reach informative conclusions. We focus on how the degree of misspecification varies with the level of aggregation of data for quasilinear utility models. We present aggregation results formalizing that the model cannot get worse when...

Applied research often tolerates misspecification in order to reach informative conclusions. We focus on how the degree of misspecification varies with the level of aggregation of data for quasilinear utility models. We present aggregation results formalizing that the model cannot get worse when...

This paper considers a differentiated goods managerial mixed duopoly composed of one social welfare‐maximising public firm and one profit‐maximising private firm. We model the firm choice of the strategic contract. We find that when the strength of network effects is sufficiently strong, the...

Traditionally, real experiments testing subjective expected utility theory take for granted that subjects view the Ellsberg task as a one-person decision problem. We challenge this view: Instead of seeing the Ellsberg task as a one-person decision problem, it can be perceived as a two-player...

The basis for the empirical research on earnings determination is the Mincer equation. Individuals are assumed to make schooling decisions by maximizing earnings. Leisure costs of schooling and labour supply are neglected which has some empirically implausible implications. This paper shows a...

We study users' response to sponsored-search advertising using data from Microsoft's Live AdCenter distributed in the "Beyond Search" initiative. We estimate a structural model of utility maximizing users, which quantifies "user experience" based on their "revealed preferences," and predicts...

We study users' response to sponsored-search advertising using data from Microsoft's Live AdCenter distributed in the "Beyond Search" initiative. We estimate a structural model of utility maximizing users, which quantifies "user experience" based on their "revealed preferences," and predicts...

Economics and management science share the tradition of ordering risk aversionby fitting the best expected utility (EU) model with a certain utility function to in-dividual data, and then using the utility curvature for each individual as the soleindex of risk attitude. (Cumulative) Prospect...