Статья посвящена взаимодействию общекультурных и художественных норм в плоскости ментальности эпохи Нового времени, а также выражению этой художественной культуре. В первую очередь автор обращается к опыту школы «Анналов», основанной Л. Февром М. Блоком дальнейшем продолженной их последователями. Через концепцию реконструкции исторических обстоятельств прослеживает причинность сдвигов культурны...

The period of eighteenth and nineteenth centuries is considered as modern period. During this period India passed from medieval to modern age. This period witnessed a remarkable beginning of intellectual activities in India. A number of books on Ayurveda were written. Many British officials and physicians studied the Indian medicine and published their works. A new branch of history of Avur ve ...

of the Dissertation Three Essays on Asset Pricing, Portfolio Choice and Behavioral Finance.

This paper analyzes the investment decisions of insured banks under fixed-rate deposit insurance. The model takes into account the charter value and allows banks to dynamically revise their asset portfolios. Trade-offs exist between preserving the charter and exploiting deposit insurance. The optimal bank portfolio problem is solved analytically for a constant charter value. In any audit period...

This paper, adopting the recursive multiple-priors utility, studies the optimal consumption and portfolio choice in a Merton-style model with anticipation when there is a difference between ambiguity and risk. The fundamental issue is what the effects of ambiguity and anticipation on the investor’s behavior are. In the case of a logarithmic felicity function, the paper also shows that no hedgin...

Let MPT (v, 2) denote a maximum packing of triples of order v and index 2. An MPT (v, 2) is called simple if it contains no repeated triples. It is proved in this paper that for v > 2 and any even 2, the necessary and sufficient condition for the embedding of a simple MPT(v,2) in a simple MPT(u,).) is u >/2v + 1.

Weighted utility models attempt to account for risk preferences in terms of an expectation-like equation applied to the subjective evaluation of probabilities and outcomes, while Portfolio theory assumes that risk preference is a function of expected value and perceived risk. A pair of empirical predictions which contrasts Portfolio theory with all weighted utility models is derived and tested....

Two hundred venirepersons from the 12th Judicial Circuit in Bradenton, Florida completed the following measures: (1) one question that measured their level of support for the death penalty; (2) one question that categorized their death-qualification status; (3) 23 questions that measured their attitudes toward the death penalty (ATDP); (4) 22 questions that assessed their attitudes toward women...