Economic and Environmental Risk and Uncertainty: New Models and Methods - Theory and Decision Library B 1997 edition

Marc Notes: A selection of papers presented at the FUR VII conference held in Oslo from June 30 to July 3, 1994. Table of Contents: Preface. Ole Hagen and the FUR Conferences; F. Wenstop. I. Models of Environmental Risk. Valuing Health and Safety: Some Economic and Psychological Issues; M. J. Jones-Lee, G. Loomes. Improving Efficiency in Environmental Enforcement; D. M. Kilgour. Valuation of Environmental Goods: Frame Effects in the Estimation of Multi- Criteria Utility Functions; F. Wenstop, A. J. Carlsen. Stochastic Trees and Medical Decision Making; G. B. Hazen, J. Sounderpandian. Manipulation of Emission Permit Markets; E. Romstad, O. Bergland. II: Risk and Uncertainty in Economic Theory. Allais Theory Offers Solution and Explanation for Equity Premium Puzzle; J. Golob. Generalized Expected Utility and the Demand for Insurance: The Limits of Machina; T. Russell. The Derivation of Generalized Expected Utility Expansion: Reply to Russell; M. Machina. Necessary Conditions for Efficient Multiple-Bid Auctions; F. Bolle. Balanced Equilibrium: A Theory of Behavior in Games Based on Continuity and Insufficient Reason; M. Mariotti. Mixed Extensions of Games and the St. Petersburg Paradox; H. Haller. Consumption with Fluctuations in Preference; K. Nakazawa, J. Hey. III: Recent Progress in Modeling Preferences and Risk Attitudes. Dynamically Consistent Preferences, Quadratic Beliefs, and Choice Under Uncertainty; J. Eichberger, S. Grant. Induced Preferences and Decision Making Under Risk and Uncertainty; D. Kelsey, F. Milne. On Socks, Ties, and Extended Outcomes; H. Markowitz. Hierarchies and the Self-Control of Risk Attitude; L. Wathieu. Allais Phenomena and Completeness of Preferences; S. Rios, et al. Representing Preference Relations with Nontransitive Indifference by a SingleReal-Valued Function; G. Bos, R. Isler. Index."