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Joint desirability foundations of social choice and opinion pooling

Casanova, Arianna ; Miranda, Enrique ; Zaffalon, Marco

In: Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence, 2021, no. 89, p. 965–1011

We develop joint foundations for the fields of social choice and opinion pooling using coherent sets of desirable gambles, a general uncertainty model that allows to encompass both complete and incomplete preferences. This leads on the one hand to a new perspective of traditional results of social choice (in particular Arrow’s theorem as well as sufficient conditions for the existence of an...

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Aligning capital with risk

Ebnöther, Silvan ; Trojani, Fabio (Dir.)

Thèse de doctorat : Università della Svizzera italiana, 2015 ; 2015ECO007.

The interaction of capital and risk is of primary interest in the corporate governance of banks as it links operational profitability and strategic risk management. Senior executives understand that their organization's monitoring system strongly affects the behaviour of managers and employees. Typical instruments used by senior executives to focus on strategy are balanced scorecards with...

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On the structure of finitely additive martingales

Cassese, Gianluca

Finitely additive martingales are the counterpart of finitely additive measures over filtered probability space. We study the structure of the Yosida Hewitt decomposition in such setting and obtaing a full characterisation. Based on this result we introduce a “conditional expectation” operator for finitely additive measures which has some properties in common with ordinary conditional...