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future utility when uncertainty increases over time. The more we know about the future welfare consequences of our (in …)actions, the more weight they receive. If uncertainty is endogenous to the decision process, the new rationale for discounting will …
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Understanding the reasons why individuals take risks, particularly unnecessary risks, remains an important question in economics. We provide the first evidence of a powerful connection between happiness and risk-avoidance. Using data on 300,000 Americans, we demonstrate that happier individuals...
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We show that professional soccer players exhibit reference-dependent behavior during matches. Controlling for the state of the match and for unobserved heterogeneity, we show on a minute-by-minute basis that a player breaches the rules of the game, measured by the referee’s assignment of...
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This paper presents the results of an experiment that completely measures the utility function and probability weighting function for different positive and negative monetary outcomes, using a representative sample of N = 1935 from the general public. The results confirm earlier findings in the...
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This paper deals with three aspects of spectacular oil price episodes such as the one witnessed in 2008. First, the concept of temporary explosiveness is proposed as an empirical method for capturing this type of behavior. The application of a recently proposed recursive unit root test shows...
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prices versus tradable quantities in terms of expected welfare, given uncertainty, optimal policy and endogenous cost …
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The paper studies the interaction between cyclical uncertainty and investment in a stochastic real option framework … of the link between cyclical uncertainty and investment is quantified using simulations of the model. The chief …
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Uncertainty has an almost negligible impact on project value in the economic standard model. I show that a … comprehensive evaluation of uncertainty and uncertainty attitude changes this picture fundamentally. The analysis relies on the … and with respect to non-risk uncertainty. The paper derives the resulting changes of the risk-free and the stochastic …
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under uncertainty and irreversibility. Unlike other approaches we include accumulative schooling costs, and provide a full …
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We study the importance of uncertainty and public finance to the welfare ranking of three environmental policy … revenues finance public abatement. When the main source of uncertainty is economic, the most efficient recipe is to levy … pollution taxes and use the collected tax revenues to finance public abatement. However, when environmental uncertainty is the …
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