Our main results can be stated as follows: 1. For any given numbers m, C and D, the class of m-dimensional simply connected closed smooth manifolds with finite second homotopy groups which admit a Riemannian metric with sectional curvature bounded in absolute value by |K| ≤ C and diameter uniformly bounded from above by D contains only finitely many diffeomorphism types. 2. Given any m and any ...

I analyze whether case-based decision makers (CBDM) can survive in an asset market in the presence of expected utility maximizers. Conditions are identified, in which the CBDM retain a positive mass with probability one. CBDM can cause predictability of asset returns, high volatility and bubbles. It is found that the expected utility maximizers can disappear from the market for a finite period ...

For decades, economists paid minuscule attention to culture, but this is changing rapidly. One view of culture emphasizes “values that ethnic, religious, and social groups transmit fairly unchanged from generation to generation” (Guiso et al., 2006: 23), and one way to model such values is to enrich the arguments of an actor’s utility function to include actions by others in the actor’s social ...

Currently one of the most divisive issues in some Christian communities centers on women’s ordination. This study critically analyzes a religious discourse which defends and justifies the Southern Baptist Convention’s opposition to women’s ordination by using a sociocognitive approach as an underlying theoretical framework. The analysis aims to illustrate how a religious text both assumes and t...

In this paper we provide estimates of the coefficient of relative risk aversion using information on selfreports of subjective personal well-being from three datasets: the Gallup World Poll, the European Social Survey, and the World Values Survey. We additionally consider the implications of allowing for health state dependence in the utility function on estimates of risk aversion and examine h...

Summry.-The concept of values has been defined differently within each discipline in the social sciences and many different methods have been proposed to measure individual values. For the purpose of deriving a unique concept of values it was necesaq to distinguish values from other related concepts. This was accomplished .by viewing values as evaluative dimensions, e.g., goodbad, desirable-und...

In practical reasoning, it is important to take into consideration what other agents will do, since this will often influence the effect of actions performed by the agent concerned. In previous treatments, the actions of others must either be assumed, or argued for using a similar form of practical reasoning. Such arguments, however, will also depend on assumptions about the beliefs, values and...

W focus on destination categories, so named because they have the greatest impact on where households choose to shop and, more generally, on how category positioning (e.g., long-run merchandising policies) affects which store a household chooses. We propose a reduced-form model-based analytical approach to identify categories that fill the destination role. Our approach determines which categor...

XML documents are often used to provide inter-system interoperability. A related problem is that XML documents evolve over time, so identifying and understanding the changes they undergo become crucial. Some diff approaches based on syntactic and semantic analysis of the documents have been developed to address this problem. The strategy is to find data fragments that are identical in both vers...

Citation: Padoa-Schioppa C (2015) Commentary: Utility-free heuristic models of two-option choice can mimic predictions of utility-stage models under many conditions. A Commentary on Utility-free heuristic models of two-option choice can mimic predictions of utility-stage models under many conditions. Many neuroeconomic studies in the past 10 years have reported neural signals encoding the subje...