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We consider the problem of finding sufficient conditions for political support of liberal, growth-enhancing policy in a quality-ladders model with heterogeneous agents differing in their endowment of wealth and skills. The policy set is two-dimensional: Agents vote for the level of...
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We propose a simple quality-ladder model with heterogeneous agents differing in their skills and wealth endowment to explain the persistence of barriers to entry in new democracies. In the model agents vote for a rate of redistribution and for the level of barriers to entry, which protect the...
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We investigate the empirical relation between ambiguity aversion, risk aversion and portfolio choices. We match … administrative panel data on portfolio choices with survey data on preferences over ambiguity and risk. We report three main findings … portfolio in a contrarian direction relative to the market. Accordingly, their exposure to risk is more stable over time. Third …
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This chapter of a collective book aims at presenting the basics of decision making under risk. We first define notions … of risk and increasing risk and recall definitions and classifications (that are valid independently of any … representation) of behavior under risk. We then review the classical model of expected utility due to von Neumann and Morgenstern …
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, which allow to take into account observed behaviors as in Allais' paradox under risk or Ellsberg's paradox under uncertainty … uncertainty, and Quiggin and Yaari under risk, succeeded to characterize preferences which generalize the EU model, by means of a … for more diversified patterns of behavior under uncertainty as well under risk. …
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The theory of existence of equilibrium with short-selling is reconsidered under risk and ambiguity modelled by risk … of the risk adjusted sets of expectations overlap. This condition is necessary if agents are not risk neutral at extreme … compatible trades, with non negative expected value with respect to any risk adjusted prior, strictly positive for some agent and …
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assets with short-selling where there is risk and ambiguity. Agents have Bewley's incomplete preferences. As an inertia … risk adjusted sets of probabilities intersect. The more risk averse, the more ambiguity averse the agents, the more likely …
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We propose a method for estimating hurdle rates for firms' investments in pollution abatement technology, using ex post data. The method is based on a structural option value model where the future price of polluting fuel is the major source of uncertainty facing the firm. The econometric...
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This article analyzes the individual determinants of acquisition activity and target choices in the pharmaceutical industry over the period 1978-2002. The "innovation gap" hypothesis states that acquiring firms lack promising drug compounds and acquire firms with more promising drug prospects. A...
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In many cases consumers cannot observe firms' investment in quality or safety, but have only beliefs on the average quality of the industry. In addition, the outcome of the collective investment game of the firms may be stochastic since firms cannot control perfectly the technology or external...
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