We model the stock market as a timing game, in which arbitrageurs who are not expected to be certainly rational compete over profit by bursting the bubble caused by investors’ euphoria. The manager raises money by issuing shares and the arbitrageurs use leverage. If leverage is weakly regulated, it is the unique Nash equilibrium that the bubble persists for a long time. This holds even if the e...

When we have an idea of student’s preparation (e.g., because of a previous written exam, or a term project, or after having asked the first questions), we even do something more. We ask difficult questions to good students, and we ask easy questions to bad students: ! What’s the point in asking easy questions to good students? They will almost certainly answer correctly, as expected, without pr...

inhalation allergens at age 11. It would therefore be most informative if the authors could provide additional data on the differences between the neonatal anthropometric data of the children with and without ceasarean section, and on the indications for caesarean sections themselves. This issue is of significant importance and of clinical relevance because, if indeed a causal relationship exis...

User Financial Incentives (UFIs) have emerged as a powerful tool for health promotion. Strong evidence suggests that large enough incentives paid to individuals, conditional on behaviour they can control, encourages more of the desired behaviour. However, such interventions can have unintended consequences for non-targeted behaviours. Implementation difficulties that result in individuals not u...

generality. Even though the reductionist assumptions of economic models are certainly imperfect as descriptions of real migration behaviour, refinements of the 532 D. Radu

What are the most promising biobased PET replacements? Are they economically feasible? sustainable? Industrially In future, will certainly be replaced by more than one option, e.g. , PEF, PTF, bio-PET, and PLA.

Arguments play two types of roles w.r.t. decision, namely helping to select an alternative, or to explain a choice. Until now, the various attempts at formalizing argument-based decision making have relied only on one type of arguments, in favor of or against alternatives. The paper proposes a systematic typology that identifies eight types of arguments, some of them being weaker than others. F...

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