The value of information in anticipated utility theory

A well-known property of expected utility theory is that the value of information is nonnegative. Given the widespread dissatisfaction with the expected utility hypothesis, a natural question to ask is whether competing theories of choice preserve this property. This article considers one widely discussed alternative to expected utility, anticipated utility theory. We show that, like expected utility, the anticipated value of perfect information is always nonnegative. The value of imperfect information, however, may be negative, though the precise valuation of information depends upon whether the reduction of compound lotteries axiom is used to derive the anticipated utility functional.I am indebted to Edi Karni, Peter Wakker, and an anonymous referee for helpful comments on earlier versions of this article. They are of course in no way responsible for errors or obscurities in the present version.     

Corporate Governance: Impulses from the Middle East

The sheer fact that the concept of Corporate Governance is not yet as widely spread in the countries of the Middle-East as in Western economies, may lead to our labelling, once again, this region as underdeveloped. The purpose of this article, however, is to lead the reader to let go of this Western perspective and to discover the distinctive impulses that the Arab-Muslim region has to offer for the further development of the human-social dimension of corporate governance, if not to ultimately transform it in such a “Middle-Eastern” light. We start then, in this article, by revealing some of the general limitations to corporate governance, before moving onto the specific impulses provided by the Muslim-Arab context. Islamic management is a new domain of knowledge that will be addressed in this paper to shed some light on how Islam can inform reform and transform the notion of corporate governance.      

A Conversation With Virus X: Outing a Malevolent and Subversive Force in Parents' Lives

The following conversation describes a narrative means of uncovering (or ‘deconstructing’) some of the invisible forces that undermine parents' capacities in caring for their children in preferred ways. In the authors' experience, parents can be hugely resourceful and provide a clear account of what they ‘should’ be doing, yet seem unable to act upon their own good advice — it is as though an external agent, named below as ‘Virus X’, prevents them from being the parents they would like to be. Through naming this external agent, identifying its influences and noticing parents' acts of resistance in the face of these influences, antidotes to Virus X can be developed. This paper describes the development of such an approach within a child behaviour management group. In keeping with the playful approach encouraged by narrative therapy, the authors of this paper join forces to act as investigative journalists in exposing Virus X to the readers.     

网络嵌入价值视角下信息中介服务进入决策

研究了信息中介的服务与决策者构成的复杂网络之间的相互作用,提出了网络嵌入价值VNE,同时考虑网络收益与中介收益标度既可用于评价服务对于网络的价值,也可为信息中介决策提供依据.在中介和网络间建立了一个博弈模型,得到了中介服务能生存于网络中的条件.在此基础上定义了信息中介的网络嵌入价值,从网络的视角考察了中介服务进入市场的成本C和价格P的决策.最后比较了ER网络(随机网络)与SF网络(无标度网络)这两种不同网络结构下网络嵌入价值与决策的差异.     

小流域综合治理及其效益评价研究进展

本文在纵览国内20多年来有关小流域综合治理及其效益评价研究文献的基础上，分别对小流域综合治理的相关概念、发展历程、治理模式、治理措施以及目前存在的问题等方面的研究进行了较为全面的回顾；总结了小流域综合治理效益评价的内容、标准和原则，对不同学者所建立的评价指标体系进行了比较分析，并从定性和定量两个方面综述了已有文献中所应用的效益评价方法；最后指出了现有研究中存在的问题，并提出了进一步研究的方向，以期对后续研究有所参考和启示。     

通过林业经营和管理制度创新加快“林纸一体化”进程

林纸结合离不开规模经营。国家的林业和纸业产业发展政策，对林业经营和管理制度提出了新的要求。要解决纸浆林基地问题，需要进行林业经营和管理制度的创新，建立商品 林采伐申报制度，通过普遍的订单管理制度为造纸企业提供充足的原料基地，在家庭私有化 林场的基础上实现股份制规模经营，从而实现集体商品林生产和木浆林生产的“双赢”和可持续发展。     

When the Management of Grief Becomes Everyday Life: The Aftermath of Murder

This study examines how others indicate that our emotions violate social norms and how people feel about and respond to those indications. The data come from in‐depth interviews with thirty‐two people who had recently lost a loved one to murder (“bereaved victims”). Through the symbolic interaction process, bereaved victims came to appreciate the burden their grief imposed on others, and some of them took steps to minimize that burden. Despite their awareness of the burden, however, many of the bereaved expected others to express heartfelt sympathy for their loss. Instead, people offered inappropriate (and even hurtful) responses, including avoiding the topic of their loss, offering unnecessarily dramatic responses to the loss, and telling them to move on. The responses suggest that current feeling rules and emotion norms surrounding grief do not reflect the true extent of bereaved people's actual experiences, creating awkward situations for potential supporters and the bereaved.     

大学生心理问题应急处理机制探析

通过对在校大学生的问卷调查与分析,提出有关大学生心理问题的应急处理的普及机制和在应急过程中应遵循的原则等,并针对大学生中由于受严重心理问题影响而产生的自杀、暴力、杀人等恶性事件,提出一些具体的预防或控制处理的策略与措施,以期减少校园悲剧的发生。     

北魏免官制度述略

免官是北魏官吏处罚制度的重要形式之一。处罚对象广泛、处罚原因和处罚形式多样、处罚制度较为完善是北魏免官制度的特点。在强化君权、整饬吏治方面，北魏免官制度发挥了一定的作用。     

煤炭行业的危机成因与对策研究

虽然近年来党中央相继采取重大举措加强安全工作，但由于我国安全生产基础薄弱，保障体制和机制不健全．煤矿事故仍然频频发生。本文在阐述我国煤炭行业的现状和事故多发原因的基础上，针对存在的各类危机现象提出了相应的对策与建议．旨在把危机管理理论引入煤炭行业作一些有益的探讨。