Are rich people smarter?
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Under general conditions, a homogeneous investment talent leads to the Pareto distribution, and a mild degree of differential investment talent leads to non-Pareto wealth distribution. However, the findings suggest that chance is the main factor in the process of wealth accumulation by financial investment.
Publication Name: Journal of Economic Theory
Subject: Economics
ISSN: 0022-0531
Year: 2003
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The effect of decision weights in bargaining problems
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As per the rank-dependent utility theory, both the utility function and the probability weighting function influence the risk attitude of the decision maker. This leads to two forms of risk aversion which are, utility risk aversion and probabilistic risk aversion.
Publication Name: Journal of Economic Theory
Subject: Economics
ISSN: 0022-0531
Year: 2003
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Intrinsic heterogeneity in expectation formation
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A study is conducted to develop a stochastic econometric model called misspecification equilibrium using dynamic macroeconomic concepts.
Publication Name: Journal of Economic Theory
Subject: Economics
ISSN: 0022-0531
Year: 2006
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