Amnon Levy, Zhenya Hu, Sayan Chakraborty, Ashish Das, Andrew Kaplin, ...
This paper proposes a theoretical framework to account for systematic risk in recovery and to address the correlation between the firm’s underlying asset process and recovery. Under the proposed...
A DECISION RULE FOR TRANSPLANTING NON-CADAVERIC ORGANS by (2003)
This paper conceptually analyzes the minimum probability of success required for transplanting non-cadaveric organs, its relationship with the initial, and possible rates of change in the,...
Why Does Capital Structure Choice Vary With Macroeconomic Conditions? (2000)
This paper develops a calibrated model that explains the pronounced counter-cyclical leverage patterns observed for firms that access public capital markets, and relates these patters to debt and...
Why Does Capital Structure Choice Vary With Macroeconomic Conditions? (2000)
This paper develops a calibrated model that explains the pronounced counter-cyclical leverage patterns observed for firms that access public capital markets, and relates these patterns to debt and...
Why Does Capital Structure Choice Vary With Macroeconomic Conditions? (2000)
This paper develops a calibrated model that explains the pronounced counter-cyclical leverage patterns observed for firms that access public capital markets, and relates these patters to debt and...
Why Does Capital Structure Choice Vary With Macroeconomic Conditions? (2000)
This paper develops a calibrated model that explains the pronounced counter-cyclical leverage patterns observed for firms that access public capital markets, and relates these patters to debt and...
Why Does Capital Structure Choice Vary With Macroeconomic Conditions? (2000)
This paper develops a calibrated model that explains the pronounced counter-cyclical leverage patterns observed for firms that access public capital markets, and relates these patterns to debt and...
Why Does Capital Structure Choice Vary With Macroeconomic Conditions? (2000)
This paper develops a calibrated model that explains the pronounced counter-cyclical leverage patterns observed for firms that access public capital markets, and relates these patters to debt and...
Essays in financial economics. (2000)
Thesis (Ph. D, Finance)--Northwestern University, 2000.
Equity and efficiency in agricultural land allocation / (1982)
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 74-75).
Equity and efficiency in agricultural land allocation / (1982)
Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of California, Berkeley, 1982.
Traffic control system for emergency vehicles :--research project /--by Amnon Levy. (1972)
Thesis (M.S. in Electrical Engineering)--University of California, Berkeley, Feb. 1972.
Would a Rational Lucy Take Off without Assessing the Probability of a Crash Landing?
A random life expectancy and a positive relationship between the probability of dying and the degree of addiction are incorporated into a rational addiction model. The Becker-Murphy equality between...
A Theoretical Analysis of Trade Union Membership Fees, Bargaining Power, Wage Rate and Unemployment.
A Note on Income Inequality and Macro-economic Volatility.
Income inequality may influence macro-economic variables by affecting the money multiplier and the trade-off between inflation and output. In an AD-AS model with imperfect foresight income inequality...
A low population density and a large distance from civilization centres present a high degree of isolation to the island's residents. Immigration can reduce the mental and material costs of isolation...
A Theory of Relative Deprivation and Myopic Addiction
Myopic use of mind-altering substances is proposed to be equal to the product of the user’s current levels of relative-deprivation feeling and substance-tolerance. If initially this product is...
Depression and Substance Abuse: A Rationalization of a Vicious Circle
Levy, Amnon, Faria, João Ricardo
While a mind-altering-substance consumption alleviates current level of depression, it facilitates future depression. Our analysis incorporates this trade off and shows that the stationary state of a...
Optimal Control of Locusts in Subsistence Farming Areas
Locust swarms hit subsistence-staple-crop-growing households at random and are not privately controllable. A regional aerial-spraying scheme that supports these households’ livelihood at the least...
Partnership with Partial Commitment
This paper derives the Nash-equilibrium degrees of commitment to a partnership where lack of full commitment fuels suspicion and increases potential losses for partners.
Health-Risking Informal Service: Price, Prevalence and Law Enforcement
The health-risking informal service is transacted when the expected extra satisfaction rate exceeds the ratio of the expected extra cost to the formal service price. Its prevalence decreases with the...
Early-age enlistment increases a small country's potential army size and thereby its attack-deterrence capacity. However, physical and psychological injuries and, ultimately, death generate a loss of...
Macroeconomic Aspects of Substance Abuse: Diffusion, Productivity and Optimal Control
This paper deals dynamically with macroeconomic aspects of widespread substance abuse with a reference to illicit drugs as an example. Substance-abuse impedes the productivity of the labour force and...
Trucefully Yours: Hatred and the Prospects of Genuine and Stable Peace
This paper highlights the role of hatred and its evolution in determining the course of conflicts between nations following their signing of an agreement for truce. It analytically demonstrates that...
Should They Be Enlisted at Eighteen Years of Age?
An expected-net-national-benefit-maximizing enlistment-age is analytically derived for small countries engaged in external conflicts by considering the effects of the enlistment age on army size,...
A Lean-Against-the-Wind Rule for Controlling Low-Skill and Illegal Immigration
Levy, Amnon, Faria, Joao Ricardo
This paper develops a lean-against-the-wind rule for setting low-skill immigration quota. The construction of this rule takes into account the factors governing the supply of and demand for low-skill...
Environmental Hazard and Residential Value, Location and Dispersion
This paper provides microeconomic foundations to the relationship between the values of residential properties and the environmental quality of their location. It constructs an...
A Decision Rule for Transplanting Non-Cadaveric Organs
This paper conceptually analyzes the minimum probability of success required for transplanting non-cadaveric organs, its relationship with the initial, and possible rates of change in the,...
The Body Mass Index (BMI) provides a biased assessment of individual weight condition when there are substantial frame and muscle size deviations from the average for a given height. A method for...
Drugs and Growth-Efficient Prevention: An Inter-temporal Portfolio of Machos, Narcos and Angels
In many countries substance abuse is a social epidemic. This paper deals conceptually with some macroeconomic aspects of widespread substance abuse with special reference to narcotic drugs. The...
Illegal Immigration and Migrant Networks: Is There an Optimal Immigration Quota Policy?
Faria, Joao Ricardo, Levy, Amnon
High-skill immigrants form networks that facilitate subsequent low-skill immigration. To minimize the effects of low-skill immigration on unemployment, a strict lean-against-the-wind strategy or a...
A Theory of LTR Junk-food Consumption
LTR junk-food consumption balances the marginal satisfaction with the marginal deterioration of health. An LTR person discounts the instantaneous marginal satisfaction from junk-food consumption by...
Conflict, Political Structure and Economic Growth in Dual-Population Lands
Levy, Amnon, Faria, João Ricardo
The optimal consumption growth rate for a group in a strictly political federation in a dual-population land is lower than that under partition if the group is wealthier and has a lower population...
A Theory of Chronic Loss, Suffering and Alcoholism
This paper focuses on the consumption of alcohol to numb the suffering associated with failure. While drinking reduces the individual’s current level of suffering, it leads to future failures and...
Equality, Infancy and Efficiency in Allocating Internal Research Funds to Faculty Members
equality, infancy, efficiency, resource allocation, research funds
A Theory of Rational Junk-Food Consumption
An expected lifetime-utility maximizing diet of junk and health food is analyzed. The stationary junk-food consumption level is equal to the ratio of the recovery capacity of a perfectly healthy...
Greening the Neoclassical Optimal Economic Growth Model
A no-arbitrage rule of consumption and a golden rule of capital accumulation are derived under the assumptions that the satisfaction from consumption is spoiled by environmental degradation caused by...
To Transplant or Not to Transplant: The Case of Cystic Fibrosis
An organ transplantation rule is constructed with a special reference to the controversial procedure of transplantation of lung sections from living donors to cystic fibrosis patients. The rule...
This paper explores a possible effect of social capital on the relationship between utility and wealth. Material status sensitivity is considered in constructing the individual social-capital index....
Junk Food, Health and Productivity: Taste, Price, Risk and Rationality
Junk-food consumption, health and productivity are analyzed within an expectedlifetime- utility-maximizing framework in which the probability of living and productivity rise with health and health...
A Mean-Variance Portfolio Analysis of the Demand and Supply of a Potentially Infectious Service
A health-risking illegal personal service is transacted when the expected extra satisfaction rate exceeds the ratio of the expected extra cost to the legal service price. Its prevalence decreases...
A theoretical analysis of rational diet of healthy and junk foods
Junk-food consumption, health and productivity are analysed within an expectedlifetime- utility-maximising framework in which longevity and productivity rise with health, and health deteriorates with...
Essays in financial economics [electronic resource].
This dissertation consists of two essays. The first essay provides a theoretical explanation for why capital structure varies with macroeconomic conditions. The second essay provides a rational for...
MACROECONOMIC ASPECTS OF SUBSTANCE ABUSE: DIFFUSION, PRODUCTIVITY AND OPTIMAL CONTROL
LEVY, AMNON, NERI, FRANK, GRASS, DIETER
This paper deals with macroeconomic aspects of widespread substance abuse with a reference to illicit drugs as an example. Substance abuse impedes the productivity of the labor force and reduces...
Optimal Control of Locusts in Subsistence Farming Areas
Locust swarms hit subsistence-staple-crop-growing households at random and are not privately controllable. An aerial-spraying optimal control model that supports the said households’ liveli-hood at...
RAMSEY IN DUAL-POPULATION LANDS: INTERNAL CONFLICT AND UTILITY-MAXIMIZING CONSUMPTION
Amnon Levy, João Ricardo Faria
Ramsey's model is extended to three possible scenarios of conflicts in dual-population lands: partition, federation and civil war. The federally utility-maximizing consumption-growth rate in a...
Would a Rational Lucy Take Off without Assessing the Probability of a Crash Landing?
A random life expectancy and a positive relationship between the probability of dying and the degree of addiction are incorporated into a rational addiction model. The Becker-Murphy equality between...
Wealth, Social Capital and Happiness: The Case of Status Sensitive People
Sensitivity of sincere social communication to economic status disparity is incorporated into the construction of sincere social-capital index. The consideration of this index leads to the depiction...
Optimal control of locusts in subsistence farming areas
Levy, Amnon, Caputo, Michael R.
Locust swarms hit subsistence-staple-crop-growing households at random and are not privately controllable. An aerial-spraying optimal control model that supports the said households' livelihood at...
Persistent high ambition and substance abuse: a rationalization of a vicious circle
Ambition, Failure, Depression, Substance abuse, Relief, Community support, Cycles, D91, I12,
Environmental Concern and Rational Production, Consumption and Rehabilitation
Utility from consumption might be spoiled by the degradation of the environment. The incorporation of a direct dependency of utility on the state of the environment through environmental concern and...
Ramsey with Environmental Awareness
This paper speculates how Ramsey’s (1928) model of optimal consumption and saving would have been constructed had Sir Frank Ramsey lived in a period of greater awareness of the environmental...
A theory of happiness-wealth relationship with status-sensitive communication
Personal happiness might not solely depend on the individual's level of wealth but also on the individual's level of sincere social capital. This paper argues that if sincere interpersonal...
A theory of entrenched socioeconomic deprivation and addiction to strong mind-altering substances
Consumption of strong mind-altering substances might stem from a drive for immediate relief of entrenched deprivation and might rise with the product of the user's discontent and physiological...
ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH AND CHOICE OF RESIDENCE
This paper analyses the relationships between the values and dispersion of residential properties and the environmental-health quality of their locations. It constructs residents' health-adjusted...
MACROECONOMIC ASPECTS OF INTERNAL CONFLICTS: A CONCEPTUALISATION
This exploratory paper outlines the special macroeconomic features of countries populated by two groups of people engaged in internal conflict yet forming a central government for generating benefits...
Emission Abatement with Per Capita and Trade Considerations
Levy, Amnon, Livermore, Jonathon
In the absence of a comprehensive international agreement, each country unilaterally sets her abatement of greenhouse gas emissions at a level that possibly maximizes her expected net benefit. In...
This paper derives some possible implications of changing carrying capacity and environmental concerns for human survival. It proposes that even in the absence of any further technological,...