High valuations, uncertainty, and war

Reflecting and reporting uncertainty in valuations: An alternative approach

A substantial body of work now exists to illustrate that valuations are open to uncertainty and that pinpoint accuracy in valuations cannot be expected (Hutchison et al, 1996 , Crosby, 2000, Crosby et al, 1998). This viewpoint has been accepted by the professional body in the UK. As early as March 1994 The Mallinson Report argued that all valuations are uncertain, and recommended that valuers r...

Uncertainty about Relative Power and War

The traditional and formal literatures in international relations have placed uncertainty at the center of their explanations for war. The formal literature has largely focused on uncertainty regarding the costs of war while the traditional literature focuses on uncertainty about relative power. In this paper we analyze a class of formal models of conflict where players choose between fighting ...

Trauma care research and the war on uncertainty.

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Valuations and plurisubharmonic singularities

We extend to higher dimension our valuative analysis of singularities of psh functions started in [FJ2]. Following [KoSo], we describe the geometry of the space V of all normalized valuations on C[z1, . . . , zn] centered at the origin. It is a union of simplices naturally endowed with an affine structure. Using relative positivity properties of divisors living on modifications of C n over the ...