The Economics Of Risk And Uncertainty

Author : Mark Machina,W. Kip Viscusi
Publisher : Newnes
Page : 896 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2013-11-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780444536860

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Handbook of the Economics of Risk and Uncertainty by Mark Machina,W. Kip Viscusi Pdf

The need to understand the theories and applications of economic and finance risk has been clear to everyone since the financial crisis, and this collection of original essays proffers broad, high-level explanations of risk and uncertainty. The economics of risk and uncertainty is unlike most branches of economics in spanning from the individual decision-maker to the market (and indeed, social decisions), and ranging from purely theoretical analysis through individual experimentation, empirical analysis, and applied and policy decisions. It also has close and sometimes conflicting relationships with theoretical and applied statistics, and psychology. The aim of this volume is to provide an overview of diverse aspects of this field, ranging from classical and foundational work through current developments. Presents coherent summaries of risk and uncertainty that inform major areas in economics and finance Divides coverage between theoretical, empirical, and experimental findings Makes the economics of risk and uncertainty accessible to scholars in fields outside economics

Author : Christian Gollier
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0262572249

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The Economics of Risk and Time by Christian Gollier Pdf

Updates and advances the theory of expected utility as applied to risk analysis and financial decision making.

Author : Christian Gollier
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Risk
ISBN : 1786432749

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The Economics of Risk and Uncertainty by Christian Gollier Pdf

The compilation of ground-breaking papers contained in this collection offers a complete description of the evolution of knowledge in the economics of risk and time, from its early twentieth-century explorations to its current diversity of approaches. The papers focus first on the basic decisions under uncertainty, and then on asset pricing. They cover both classical expected utility approach and its non-expected utility generalizations, with applications to dynamic portfolio choices, insurance, risk sharing, and risk prevention. Prefaced by an original introduction from the editor, this collection will be valuable for scholars in finance and macroeconomics, particularly those with an interest in the modeling foundations of consumer and investor decisions under uncertainty.

Author : Frank H. Knight
Publisher : Cosimo, Inc.
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2006-11-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781602060050

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Risk, Uncertainty and Profit by Frank H. Knight Pdf

A timeless classic of economic theory that remains fascinating and pertinent today, this is Frank Knight's famous explanation of why perfect competition cannot eliminate profits, the important differences between "risk" and "uncertainty," and the vital role of the entrepreneur in profitmaking. Based on Knight's PhD dissertation, this 1921 work, balancing theory with fact to come to stunning insights, is a distinct pleasure to read. FRANK H. KNIGHT (1885-1972) is considered by some the greatest American scholar of economics of the 20th century. An economics professor at the University of Chicago from 1927 until 1955, he was one of the founders of the Chicago school of economics, which influenced Milton Friedman and George Stigler.

Author : Moawia Alghalith
Publisher : Nova Publishers
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1600217451

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New Economics of Risk and Uncertainty by Moawia Alghalith Pdf

Presents an alternative theoretical framework that can serve as the basis for a new age of economic analysis under risk and uncertainty. This work features an endogenous theory that overcomes the major shortcomings of both the expected utility and the rank-dependent models while it possesses the merits of both.

Author : George G. Szpiro
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 413 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2020-01-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780231550970

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Risk, Choice, and Uncertainty by George G. Szpiro Pdf

At its core, economics is about making decisions. In the history of economic thought, great intellectual prowess has been exerted toward devising exquisite theories of optimal decision making in situations of constraint, risk, and scarcity. Yet not all of our choices are purely logical, and so there is a longstanding tension between those emphasizing the rational and irrational sides of human behavior. One strand develops formal models of rational utility maximizing while the other draws on what behavioral science has shown about our tendency to act irrationally. In Risk, Choice, and Uncertainty, George G. Szpiro offers a new narrative of the three-century history of the study of decision making, tracing how crucial ideas have evolved and telling the stories of the thinkers who shaped the field. Szpiro examines economics from the early days of theories spun from anecdotal evidence to the rise of a discipline built around elegant mathematics through the past half century’s interest in describing how people actually behave. Considering the work of Locke, Bentham, Jevons, Walras, Friedman, Tversky and Kahneman, Thaler, and a range of other thinkers, he sheds light on the vast scope of discovery since Bernoulli first proposed a solution to the St. Petersburg Paradox. Presenting fundamental mathematical theories in easy-to-understand language, Risk, Choice, and Uncertainty is a revelatory history for readers seeking to grasp the grand sweep of economic thought.

Author : Richard Friberg
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2015-11-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780262528191

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Managing Risk and Uncertainty by Richard Friberg Pdf

A comprehensive framework for assessing strategies for managing risk and uncertainty, integrating theory and practice and synthesizing insights from many fields. This book offers a framework for making decisions under risk and uncertainty. Synthesizing research from economics, finance, decision theory, management, and other fields, the book provides a set of tools and a way of thinking that determines the relative merits of different strategies. It takes as its premise that we make better decisions if we use the whole toolkit of economics and related fields to inform our decision making. The text explores the distinction between risk and uncertainty and covers standard models of decision making under risk as well as more recent work on decision making under uncertainty, with a particular focus on strategic interaction. It also examines the implications of incomplete markets for managing under uncertainty. It presents four core strategies: a benchmark strategy (proceeding as if risk and uncertainty were low), a financial hedging strategy (valuable if there is much risk), an operational hedging strategy (valuable for conditions of much uncertainty), and a flexible strategy (valuable if there is much risk and/or uncertainty). The book then examines various aspects of these strategies in greater depth, building on empirical work in several different fields. Topics include price-setting, real options and Monte Carlo techniques, organizational structure, and behavioral biases. Many chapters include exercises and appendixes with additional material. The book can be used in graduate or advanced undergraduate courses in risk management, as a guide for researchers, or as a reference for management practitioners.

Author : Yasuhiro Sakai
Publisher : Springer
Page : 157 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2019-06-28
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789811380006

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J.M. Keynes Versus F.H. Knight by Yasuhiro Sakai Pdf

This book critically discusses and systematically compares J.M. Keynes and F. H. Knight, two giants in the history of economic thought. In 1921 they both published apparently similar books on risk, probability, and uncertainty. However, while Knight's contribution on risk and uncertainty is now well recognized, Keynes's work on probability and uncertainty has been somewhat ignored in the shadow of his more famous The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money (1936). Focusing on an earlier yet equally important volume by Keynes, A Treatise on Probability (1921), this book sheds a light on his outstanding ideas and the lasting influence on his later works, including The General Theory. There are few books that systematically discuss Keynes and Knight, although there are remarkable comparisons between Keynes's concept of probability and uncertainty and Knight's distinction between a measurable risk and a non-measurable uncertainty. This timely book unifies Keynes and Knight into a new, comprehensive approach to a very complex human behavior

Author : K. Borch,J. Mossin
Publisher : Springer
Page : 461 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1968-01-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781349152483

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Risk and Uncertainty by K. Borch,J. Mossin Pdf

Author : Frank H. Knight
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2012-03-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780486147932

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Risk, Uncertainty and Profit by Frank H. Knight Pdf

DIVThis enduring economics text provided the theoretical basis of the entrepreneurial American economy during the post-industrial era. A revolutionary work, it taught the world how to systematically distinguish between risk and uncertainty. /div

Author : Jean-Jacques Laffont
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0262121360

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Economie de L'incertain Et de L'information by Jean-Jacques Laffont Pdf

The Economics of Uncertainty and Information may be used in conjunction with Loffont's Fundamentals of Economics in an advanced course in microeconomics.

Author : J. Geweke
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1992-08-31
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0792319044

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Decision Making Under Risk and Uncertainty by J. Geweke Pdf

As desired, the infonnation demand correspondence is single valued at equilibrium prices. Hence no planner is needed to assign infonnation allocations to individuals. Proposition 4. For any given infonnation price system p E . P (F *), almost every a E A demands a unique combined infonnation structure (although traders may be indifferent among partial infonnation sales from different information allocations, etc. ). In particular, the aggregate excess demand correspondence for net combined infonnation trades is a continuous function. Proof Uniqueness fails only if an agent can obtain the same expected utility from two or more net combined infonnation allocations. If this happens, appropriate slight perturbations of personal probability vectors destroy the equality unless the utility functions and wealth allocations were independent across states. Yet, when utilities and wealths don't depend on states in S, no infonnation to distinguish the states is desired, so that the demand for such infonnation structures must equal zero. To show the second claim, recall that if the correspondence is single valued for almost every agent, then its integral is also single valued. Finally, note that an upper hemicontinuous (by Proposition 2) correspondence which is single valued everywhere is, in fact, a continuous function. [] REFERENCES Allen, Beth (1986a). "The Demand for (Differentiated) Infonnation"; Review of Economic Studies. 53. (311-323). Allen, Beth (1986b). "General Equilibrium with Infonnation Sales"; Theory and Decision. 21. (1-33). Allen, Beth (1990). "Infonnation as an Economic Commodity"; American Economic Review. 80. (268-273).

Author : Behl, Abhishek,Nayak, Sushma
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2018-12-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781522572091

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Maintaining Financial Stability in Times of Risk and Uncertainty by Behl, Abhishek,Nayak, Sushma Pdf

Risks and uncertainties?market, financial, operational, social, humanitarian, environmental, and institutional?are the inherent realities of the modern world. Stock market crashes, demonetization of currency, and climate change constitute just a few examples that can adversely impact financial institutions across the globe. To mitigate these risks and avoid a financial crisis, a better understanding of how the economy responds to uncertainties is needed. Maintaining Financial Stability in Times of Risk and Uncertainty is an essential reference source that discusses how risks and uncertainties affect the financial stability and security of individuals and institutions, as well as probable solutions to mitigate risk and achieve financial resilience under uncertainty. Featuring research on topics such as financial fraud, insurance ombudsman, and Knightian uncertainty, this book is developed for researchers, academicians, policymakers, students, and scholars.

Author : Mohammed Abdellaoui,John D. Hey
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2008-08-29
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783540684367

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Advances in Decision Making Under Risk and Uncertainty by Mohammed Abdellaoui,John D. Hey Pdf

Whether we like it or not we all feel that the world is uncertain. From choosing a new technology to selecting a job, we rarely know in advance what outcome will result from our decisions. Unfortunately, the standard theory of choice under uncertainty developed in the early forties and fifties turns out to be too rigid to take many tricky issues of choice under uncertainty into account. The good news is that we have now moved away from the early descriptively inadequate modeling of behavior. This book brings the reader into contact with the accomplished progress in individual decision making through the most recent contributions to uncertainty modeling and behavioral decision making. It also introduces the reader into the many subtle issues to be resolved for rational choice under uncertainty.

Author : Bilal M. Ayyub
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 597 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2003-06-26
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9781135438999

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Risk Analysis in Engineering and Economics by Bilal M. Ayyub Pdf

More than any other book available, Risk Analysis in Engineering and Economics introduces the fundamental concepts, techniques, and applications of the subject in a style tailored to meet the needs of students and practitioners of engineering, science, economics, and finance. Drawing on his extensive experience in uncertainty and risk modeling and analysis, the author leads readers from the fundamental concepts through the theory, applications, and data requirements, sources, and collection. He emphasizes the practical use of the methods presented and carefully examines the limitations, advantages, and disadvantages of each. Case studies that incorporate the techniques discussed offer a practical perspective that helps readers clearly identify and solve problems encountered in practice. If you deal with decision-making under conditions of uncertainty, this book is required reading. The presentation includes more than 300 tables and figures, more than 100 examples, many case studies, and a wealth of end-of-chapter problems. Unlike the classical books on reliability and risk assessment, this book helps you relate underlying concepts to everyday applications and better prepares you to understand and use the methods of risk analysis.