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Does Consistency Predict Accuracy of Beliefs?: Economists Surveyed About PSA
When economists' subjective beliefs about the sensitivity and positive predictive value of the Prostate Specific Antigen (PSA) test are internally consistent (i.e., satisfying Bayes' Rule), their beliefs about prostate ...
Effects of New Welfare Reform Strategies on Welfare Participation: Microdata Estimates from Canada
This paper introduces newly coded information describing province- and year-specific variation in work requirements, diversion, earning exemptions, and time limits. This new information reveals a large decline in the chance ...
Prohibition of Riba and Gharar: A signaling and screening explanation?
The emergence of Islamic Banks (IBs) with Sharia boards that restrict the set of permissible products and enforce prohibition of riba and gharar raises basic questions of how IB clients benefit by choosing financial services ...