Although rational models of risk-averse consumers have difficulty explaining limited annuity demand, we have shown in previous work that re-framing the decision in consumption terms rather than investment terms significantly increases the relative attractiveness of life annuities. In this paper we test the relative effectiveness of our two framing contexts when different reference points are in...

Although rational models of risk-averse consumers have difficulty explaining limited annuity demand, we have shown in previous work that re-framing the decision in consumption terms rather than investment terms significantly increases the relative attractiveness of life annuities. In this paper we test the relative effectiveness of our two framing contexts when different reference points are in...

Individuals choose their mates so as to maximize reproductive success, and one important component of this choice is assessment of traits reflecting mate quality. Little is known about why specific traits are used for mate quality assessment nor about how they reflect it. We have previously shown that global manipulation of insulin signaling, a nutrient-sensing pathway governing investment in s...

Individuals often act myopically when they evaluate sequences of investment opportunities. For a loss averse decision maker, such myopia causes the sequence to look less attractive and might result in the rejection of an investment program that would have been accepted in less myopic view (Benartzi and Thaler, 1995). In this paper, we argue that the relation between myopia and the attractivenes...

The paper proposes an approach to ranking a set of potential countries to invest taking into account the investor point of view about importance of different economic indicators. For the goal, a ranking algorithm that contributes to rational decision making is proposed. The described algorithm is based on combinatorial optimization modeling and repeated multi-criteria tasks solution. The final ...

Sexual reproduction strategies vary both between and within species in the level of investment in offspring. Life-history theories suggest that the rate of sexual maturation is critically linked to reproductive strategy, with high investment being associated with few offspring and delayed maturation. For humans, age of puberty and age of first sex are two developmental milestones that have been...

The present paper is concerned with the attractiveness of countries to direct foreign investments, that is, the host country characteristics that attract direct foreign investment (FDI). It focuses on two types of national characteristics— those that attract inflows of all foreign investment (intermediate products), including FDI, that is, mobility factors; and those that influence the modality...