Mastering Results for Passenger Transportation on Moscow — St. Petersburg Direction in Crisis 2020-2021

Government in Moscow and St.-Petersburg: Two Models and Two Ways

St. Petersburg Portfolio Games

We investigate the performance of the constantly rebalanced portfolios, when the random vectors of the market process {Xi} are independent, and each of them distributed as (X,X, . . . ,X, 1), d ≥ 1, where X,X, . . . ,X are nonnegative iid random variables. Under general conditions we show that the optimal strategy is the uniform: (1/d, . . . , 1/d, 0), at least for d large enough. In case of St...

The St. Petersburg Paradox

The classical St. Petersburg Paradox is discussed in terms of doubling strategies. It is claimed that what was originally thought of as a \paradox" can hardly be considered as very surprising today, but viewed in terms of doubling strategies, we get some results that look paradoxical, at least to the practically oriented investor.

Maternal mortality in St. Petersburg, Russian Federation.

OBJECTIVE To study the levels and causes of maternal mortality in St. Petersburg, Russian Federation. METHODS We collected data about all pregnancy-related deaths in St. Petersburg over the period 1992-2003 using several sources of information. An independent research group reviewed and classified all cases according to ICD-10 and the Confidential Enquiries into Maternal Deaths in the United ...

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The Saint Petersburg Paradox is a well known illustration ofhow the psychology of risk and reward can diverge from the underlying mathematics. In the standard game a fair coin is tossed repeatedly until the first head occurs. The payoff is $1 ifthe game terminates in one flip, $2 ifin two flips, $4 if in three, and so on, doubling the payoff for each additional flip required to obtain the first...