Tabla de Contenidos: “…Preface xv 1 Rationality, Irrationality, and Rationalization 1 Part 1 Consumer Purchasing Decisions 2 Transaction Utility and Consumer Pricing 17 3 Mental Accounting 41 4 Status Quo Bias and Default Options 70 5 The Winner s Curse and Auction Behavior 93 Part 2 Information and Uncertainty 6 Bracketing Decisions 125 7 Representativeness and Availability 156 8 Confirmation and Overconfidence 187 9 Decision under Risk and Uncertainty 214 10 Prospect Theory and Decision under Risk or Uncertainty 250 Part 3 Time Discounting and the Long and Short Run 11 Disagreeing with Ourselves: Projection and Hindsight Biases 281 12 Naive Procrastination 309 13 Committing and Uncommitting 347 Part 4 Social Preferences 14 Selfishness and Altruism 389 15 Fairness and Psychological Games 417 16 Trust and Reciprocity 450 Glossary 473 Index 495…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Lion Lawman -- The mid south's fathomable past -- Policing and banditry -- Magical thinking to dispel fear and uncertainty -- Invulnerability and protecting the sovereign body…”

“…At a higher level are discussions on the payload as an entity: architecture including redundancy; specifications--what they mean, how they relate to unit specifications, and how to verify; and specification-compliance analysis ("budgets") with uncertainty. Aspects of probability theory handy for calculating and using uncertainty and variation are presented. …”

“…The book focuses on the relationship between the cultural dimensions under analysis, such as power distance, individualism/collectivism, masculinity/feminity, strong uncertainty/weak uncertainty, short/ long time orientation and indulgence/restraint, and the properties of the financial results; persistence, predictive value, accrual adjustments and earnings smoothing. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…INTRODUCING RISK: The what and usual where of it -- NOT RISK, NOT REWARD: Reward getting what you want takes knowing what you want -- Taking a risk, when to reject safety and go for certainty -- Different types of risk, the secret lives of the paparazzi -- I AM IRRATIONAL AND I KNOW IT: Prospect theory , fitting toward rationality -- Risk misperception, I never thought I'd get caught -- GET THE BIGGEST BANG FOR YOUR RISK BUCK: Diversification, looking for efficiency in all the wtong places -- BE THE MASTER OF YOUR DOMAIN: De-risking, the art of edge -- Insurance introducing the spectacular stock option -- Moral hazards, surfing big waves with insurance -- UNCERTAINTY HAPPENS: Uncertainty, the fog of war -- Final thoughts…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Uncertainty, risk, and financial markets / Peter J. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Energy Markets -- Introduction to Price Models for Energy -- Price Dynamics in Electricity Markets -- Price-Driven Hydropower Dispatch Under Uncertainty -- On Cutting Plane Algorithms and Dynamic Programming for Hydroelectricity Generation -- Medium-Term Operational Planning for Hydrothermal Systems -- Stochastic Optimization of Power Generation and Storage Management in a Market Environment -- Risk Measures in Multi-horizon Scenario Trees -- Controlled Islanding as Robust Operator Response under Uncertainty -- Complementarity and Game-theoretical Models for Equilibria in Energy Markets: Deterministic and Risk-averse Formulations -- Optimal Planning and Economic Evaluation of Trigeneration Districts -- Renewable Energy and its Impact on Power Markets -- Copula-Based Hedge ratios for Renewable Power Generation -- Investment in Stochastic Electricity-Production Facilities -- Pricing of Energy Contracts: From Replication Pricing to Swing Options -- Energy Derivatives with Volume Controls -- Risk Hedging Strategies under Energy System and Climate Policy Uncertainties -- Comparative Assessment of Accident Risks in the Energy Sector…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…The dog that didn't bark : the study of religions in America to circa 1820 -- Comparing religions in an age of uncertainty, circa 1820 to 1875 -- William James redraws the map…”
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Tabla de Contenidos: “…Subjectivity -- 6. Objectivity and uncertainty -- 7. Fiction…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…A short view of ignorance -- Finding out -- Limits, uncertainty, impossibility, and other minor problems -- Unpredicting -- The quality of ignorance -- You and ignorance -- Case histories…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Presenting-Limits of uncertainty of an observed average.--Part 3. Control chart method of analysis and presentation of data…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Dealing with incidents -- 3. Risks and uncertainty -- 4. Damage arrangements: a different perspective -- 5. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Summary -- Introduction -- Health benefit analysis: EPA case studies -- Framing the analysis -- Exposure and response -- Uncertainty -- Using, presenting, and reviewing health benefit analysis -- Appendix…”

“…Every day people experience the uncertainty and emotional exposure that define what it means to be vulnerable. …”

“…After a slow recovery from the pandemic, the Mexican economy has navigated well the global environment of tightening financial conditions and heightened uncertainty…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Flesh-and-blood decision making -- Lessons from the heart -- Spinning plates -- Gatekeepers -- A new mother's challenge -- The uncertainty of the expert -- Surgery and satisfaction -- The eye of the beholder -- Marketing, money, and medical decisions -- In service of the soul -- Epilogue : a patient's questions…”
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Tabla de Contenidos: “…Distributed Robust Cooperative Control for Multi-Agent Systems with Heterogeneous Matching Uncertainties9. Global Consensus of Multi-Agent Systems with Lipschitz Nonlinear Dynamics; Bibliography…”

“…The determinants of uncertainty regarding the policy-stance are also investigated empirically. …”

“…The purpose of this paper is to discuss a few issues related to how best to communicate uncertainty about projections of future pension benefits to members of DC plans, and especially to present a pension risk simulator developed by the Chilean regulator (Superintendencia de Pensiones, SP) that addresses directly how to convey that uncertainty and aims at eliciting a pro-active response from individuals in terms of contributing more and for longer…”