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Investopedia contributors come from a range of backgrounds, and over 25 years there have been thousands of expert writers and editors who have contributed. In economics, demand is the consumer's ...

A utility function measures a consumer’s preference and satisfaction with different goods or services. As part of rational choice theory, it helps economists analyze how consumers make decisions to ...

We introduced a PyArrow Arange utility function to ranges, similar to Python's range or numpy.arange. This was done to fix a performance regression introduced earlier as numpy is optional and we were ...

Abstract: This paper is concerned with an investment and consumption problem in an incomplete market and takes quadratic utility function for our analysis. We firstly transform an incomplete market ...

Abstract: A classic target-setting problem with a two-piece linear outcome function is extended to include an exponential utility function over outcomes and a normal distribution over uncertain inputs ...