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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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This paper studies the empirical relationship between consumption and saving under two different sources of uncertainty …
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In this essay, three separate yet interconnected components of pro-environmental decision making are considered: (a) knowledge, in the form of basic scientific understanding and procedural knowledge, (b) risk perception, as it relates to an individual’s direct experience of climate change and...
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We study the performance under uncertainty of three renewable energy policy instruments: Tradable Renewable Quota (TRQ … benefits and costs associated with the policy, the specific ranking depends on which type of uncertainty is considered, and …
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uncertainty. The second one takes into consideration the beliefs of agents and their aversion to ambiguity. The model applies … uncertainty to the level of maximum damage. This demonstration reinforces the previous result. Hence, both regimes apply on …
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increased uncertainty concerning the future stringency of the European Emission Trading Scheme. It also gives another rationale …
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optimal combination of the two introducing the role of catastrophic and spatial uncertainty related to climate change damages … both cases uncertainty works in the direction to make mitigation a more attractive strategy than adaptation. When … catastrophic uncertainty is concerned mitigation becomes relatively more important as, by curbing emissions, it helps to reduce …
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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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We consider an optimal consumption and pollution problem that has two important features. Environmental damages due to economic activities may be irreversible and the level at which the degradation becomes irreversible is unknown. Particular attention is paid to the situation where agents are...
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evaluates the role of Solar Radiation Management (SRM) on the optimal abatement path, focusing on the uncertainty about the … theory under uncertainty, we show that abatement is decreasing in the probability of success of SRM, but that this relation …
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