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probability sessions, suggesting that this bias robustly persists in environments including both risk and future uncertainty, and …We elicit subjects' willingness to pay to reduce future risk. In our experiments, subjects are given a cash endowment … of uncertainty in our experiments. In two additional treatments, we control for future uncertainty with a continuation …
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We consider the effect of an increase in the risk from pollution. We show that in the case of a flow pollution, when … the number of players is sufficiently large, the result of Bramoulle and Treich, showing that a marginal increase of risk … in the neighborhood of a risk-free world is welfare-improving, holds even when we consider non-marginal increases in risk …
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procedure for a class of bivariate and trivariate models in which the uncertainty is described by diffusion processes for the … market price of risk (MPR), the interest rate (IR) and other relevant factors. After calibrating the models to the data we … document the behavior of the portfolio demand and the hedging components relative to the parameters of the model such as risk …
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This paper proposes a simple modification to the standard Monte Carlo simulation procedure for computing the prices of derivative securities. The modification imposes the martingale property on the simulated sample paths of the underlying asset price. This procedure is referred to as the...
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exposition to downside risk and promoting exposition to upside opportunities. It stands at the hinge between pure finance and … other areas of decision making under risk such as project evaluation, market entry and exit, organizational restructuring … financial systems rests primarily on proper risk assessment and management in project evaluation. The real options approach is …
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exposition to downside risk and promoting exposition to upside opportunities. It stands at the hinge between pure finance and … other areas of decision making under risk such as project evaluation, market entry and exit, organizational restructuring … financial systems rests primarily on proper risk assessment and management in project evaluation. The real options approach is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005079360
Uncertainties as to future supply costs of nonrenewable natural resources, such as oil and gas, raise the issue of the choice of supply sources. In a perfectly deterministic world, an efficient use of multiple sources of supply requires that any given market exhausts the supply it can draw from...
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countries and in marginalized groups of developed countries, differences in the estimation of this risk should not influence the …
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phenomenon. Uncertainty, in the form of an increase in the spread of agents' types, tends to reduce investment despite symmetric …
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This paper statistically tests the option theory of irreversible investment under uncertainty. Using contingent claims …
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