ECONOMIC INTELLIGENCE: AN INEVITABLE CHOICE

Institutional Choice in an Economic Crisis

An economic model of amniocentesis choice.

Medical practitioners typically utilize the following protocol when advising pregnant women about testing for the possibility of genetic disorders with their fetus: Pregnant women over the age of 35 should be tested for Down syndrome and other genetic disorders, while for younger women, such tests are discouraged (or not discussed) as the test can cause a pregnancy to miscarry. The logic appear...

Public School Choice: An Economic Analysis

Public school choice programs, also known as open enrollment or intra-district choice programs, give households a free choice of public school and provide public schools with incentives to compete for students. Supporters of these programs argue that by injecting market forces into the public school system, they will improve the quality of the education that public schools provide. Critics coun...

Hyper-Rational Choice and Economic Behaviour

In this paper, with help of the concept of hyper-rationality, we model the interaction between two investment companies by an important game as trickery game that has special equilibrium which called hyper-equilibrium. In trickery game, one company can choose cooperation with another company until the last moment and finally changes his action to non-cooperation which incur more loss to an oppo...

Aging may be a conditional strategic choice and not an inevitable outcome for bacteria.

Aging is known in all organisms that have different somatic and reproductive cells or in unicellular organisms that divide asymmetrically. Bacteria that divide symmetrically were believed to be immune to natural aging. The demonstration of functionally asymmetric division and aging in Escherichia coli recently has challenged this belief and led to the suggestion that aging might be inevitable f...