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Public-good provision with macro uncertainty about preferences : efficiency, budget balance, and robustness
Hellwig, Martin - 2021
mechanism of d'Aspremont and Gérard-Varet is shown to implement an effi cient provision rule with budget balance. However, first … mechanism is independent of the stochastic specification within the class of specifications defined by the structure of the …-Groves mechanism converges to zero in probability when the number of participants becomes large. In the limit, with a continuum of …
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Regulatory risk under optimal incentive regulation
Strausz, Roland - 2009
The paper provides a tractable, analytical framework to study regulatory risk under optimal incentive regulation. Regulatory risk is captured by uncertainty about the policy variables in the regulator's objective function: weights attached to profits and costs of public funds. Results are as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003796198
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Regulatory risk under optimal incentive regulation
Strausz, Roland - 2009
The paper provides a tractable, analytical framework to study regulatory risk. Regulatory risk is captured by uncertainty about the policy variables in the regulator's objective function: weights attached to profits and costs of public funds. Results are as follows: 1) The regulator's reaction...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003850166
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On the impact of risky private and public returns in the private provision of public goods : the case of social investments
Freundt, Jana; Lange, Andreas - 2019
We use a laboratory experiment to identify the impact of risk in the private and public dimensions of social investments. In variants of a public good game, we separate the return a subject's investment generates for herself vs. the return to others. We find a detrimental effect of risk on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011958821
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Technology transfers for climate change
Elsayyad, May; Morath, Florian - 2013
This paper considers investments in cost-reducing technology in the context of contributions to climate protection. Contributions to mitigating climate change are analyzed in a two-period model where later contributions can be based on better information, but delaying the contribution to the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010223047
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Does risk communication really decrease cooperation in climate change mitigation?
Bravo, Giangiacomo; Farjam, Mike; Nikolaychuk, Olexandr - 2017
Effective communication of risks involved in the climate change discussion is crucial and despite ambitious protection policies, the possibility of irreversible consequences actually occurring can only be diminished but never ruled out completely. We present a laboratory experiment that studies...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011738574
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Risk sharing in the presence of a public good
Schroth, Josef - 2015
This paper studies an economy where agents can spend resources on consuming a private good and on funding a public good. There is asymmetric information regarding agents' relative preference for private versus public good consumption. I show how private good consumption should be coordinated...
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Crowdfunding, demand uncertainty, and moral hazard : a mechanism design approach
Strausz, Roland - 2015
effect. Using mechanism design, mechanisms are characterized that induce efficient screening, while preventing moral hazard …
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The Provision of Local Public Services in a Risky Environment: An Application to Crime
Traub, Stefan - 2006
We state efficiency conditions for the provision of congestable local public goods that diminish individual-specific proprietary risks. The optimum level of such a public service is determined by equating the sum of the reductions of the expected property losses due to a better service level...
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Voluntary contributions with risky and uncertain marginal returns: The importance of the minimal value
Levati, Maria Vittoria; Morone, Andrea - 2009
Previous research indicates that risky and uncertain marginal returns from the public good significantly lower contributions. This paper presents experimental results illustrating that the effects of risk and uncertainty depend on the employed parameterization. Speci?cally, if the value of the...
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