Browsing Faculté des arts et des sciences – Département de sciences économiques - Travaux et publications by Subject "Uncertainty"

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  • Belief-weighted Nash aggregation of Savage preferences 

    Sprumont, Yves (Université de Montréal. Département de sciences économiques., 2018-09)
    The 'belief-weighted Nash social welfare functions' are methods for aggregating Savage preferences defined over a set of acts. Each such method works as follows. Fix a 0-normalized subjective expected utility representation of every possible preference ...

  • The Efficient Use of Multiple Sources of a Nonrenewable Resource under Supply Cost Uncertainty 

    Gaudet, Gérard; Lasserre, Pierre (Université de Montréal. Département de sciences économiques., 2008-03)
    Uncertainties as to future supply costs of nonrenewable natural resources, such as oil and gas, raise the issue of the choice of supply sources. In a perfectly deterministic world, an efficient use of multiple sources of supply requires that any given ...

  • Investment Under Demand Uncertainty: the Newsboy Problem Revisited 

    Dionne, Georges; MOUNSIF, Tahar (Université de Montréal. Département de sciences économiques., 1996)
    In this article we study the effect of uncertainty on an entrepreneur who must choose the capacity of his business before knowing the demand for his product. The unit profit of operation is known with certainty but there is no flexibility in our ...

  • Investment Under Demand Uncertainty: the Newsboy Problem Revisited 

    Dionne, Georges; MOUNSIF, Tahar (Université de Montréal. Département de sciences économiques., 1996)
    In this article we study the effect of uncertainty on an entrepreneur who must choose the capacity of his business before knowing the demand for his product. The unit profit of operation is known with certainty but there is no flexibility in our ...

  • Revealed Preference and Choice under Uncertainty 

    Bossert, Walter; Suzumura, Kotaro (Université de Montréal. Département de sciences économiques., 2010-11-06)
    We employ the theory of rational choice to examine whether observable choices from feasible sets of prospects can be generated by the optimization of some underlying decision criterion under uncertainty. Rather than focusing on a specific theory of ...