How Valuable Are Chances?

Listening to Strangers: Whose Responses Are Valuable, How Valuable Are They, and Why?

Vol. XLV (August 2008), 425–436 425 © 2008, American Marketing Association ISSN: 0022-2437 (print), 1547-7193 (electronic) *Allen M. Weiss is Professor of Marketing (e-mail: amweiss@marshall. usc.edu), and Deborah J. MacInnis is Charles L. and Ramona I. Hilliard Professor of Business Administration (e-mail: [email protected]), Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California. Nicho...

How to Increase the Chances

It is important to keep in mind that SIGCOMM runs a double-blind reviewing process. By double-blind we mean that authors don’t know who their reviewers are, and reviewers don’t know who the authors are. Personally, I’m a big fan of double-blind reviewing. Double-blind reviewing focuses attention on the papers, rather than who wrote the papers. And every year there are some surprises — SIGCOMM a...

Are Humean Chances Formally Adequate?

This paper argues that the Humean theory of chance is formally adequate in the sense that it satisfies the axioms of finitely additive probability. To this end, firstly, a functionalist account of chance is defended, according to which chance is a functional property and the function relevant to chance is to constrain an agent’s credence in the manner prescribed by David Lewis’s Principal Princ...

Food Taxes: How Likely Are Likely Effects?

Are Credit Ratings Valuable Information?

Credit ratings are commonly used by lenders to assess the default risk, because every credit is connected with a possible loss. If the probability of a default is above a certain threshold, a credit will not be provided. The purpose of this paper is to test whether credit ratings contribute valuable information on the creditworthiness of firms. Employing a large sample of Western German manufac...