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landholders under uncertainty about the value of environmental services and irreversible development. We study land conversion … Government to induce adequate participation in a conservation plan. We study the impact of uncertainty on the optimal conversion … of deforestation. Interestingly, we show that uncertainty, even if it induces conversion postponement in the short …
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under uncertainty about the value of environmental services and irreversible development. We study land conversion under … adequate participation in a conservation plan. We analytically determine the impact of uncertainty and optimal policy …
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In this paper a real option model is developed to examine the critical factors affecting the decision to lease agricultural land to a company installing a PV power plant. The leasing payment is certain while the net revenues from agriculture are uncertain. We identify the profit values at which...
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Uncertainty plays a key role in the economics of climate change, and the discussions surrounding its implications for … climate policy are far from settled. We give an overview of the literature on uncertainty in integrated assessment models of … complementary approaches that model uncertainty in association with integrated assessment models: the discrete uncertainty modeling …
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This paper develops linear quadratic robust control theory for a class of spatially invariant distributed control systems that appear in areas of economics such as New Economic Geography, management of ecological systems, optimal harvesting of spatially mobile species, and the like. Since this...
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How should a decision-maker allocate R&D funds when a group of experts provides divergent estimates on a technology's potential effectiveness? To address this question, we propose a simple decision-theoretic framework that takes into account ambiguity over the aggregation of expert opinion and a...
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Large-scale foreign investments in African farmland are rising and may contribute to agricultural productivity growth and economic development. However, host countries sometimes have to wait longer for the economic benefits to arrive than initially expected. In this respect, the timing of...
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uncertainty, society must take robust preventive action to guard against worst-case outcomes. It follows that the higher the … degree of uncertainty, the more aggressive this preventive action should be. This normative maxim is explored in the case of … a stylized dynamic model of pollution control under Knightian uncertainty. At time 0 a decision-maker makes a one …
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It has been established in the medical literature that self-medicating with imperfect information about either the use of a genuine or counterfeit drug or based on wrong self-diagnosis of ailment, which is predominant especially in developing countries, is a risky investment in health capital....
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). Exogenous uncertainty over the size of the negotiated amount of water is introduced to capture the fact that water availability …
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