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Consumers and organisations are increasingly considering longer term sustainability issues when they purchase or supply … purchasing and supply may provide a fruitful way of gaining a deeper understanding of the issues and of moving towards a greener …
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The paper's aim is to evaluate the changing patterns of defence requirements and their implications on supply chains … that have major impacts on defence supply relationships. The authors find a consensus in the industry concerning a shift … acknowledged as requiring much closer partnerships in the defence supply chain, in which suppliers assume much greater …
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Public authorities often invoke the precautionary principle to ban or postpone the development of innovative projects with uncertain but potentially harmful irreversible impacts on the environment or health. As stated in the Rio declaration, the precautionary principle suggests balancing costs...
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This paper applies to adverse selection theory the advances made in the field of ambiguity theory. It shows that i) a relevant second-best contract induces no production distortion considering the efficient agent as in the standard case. But the principal has to pay a higher information rent...
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unilateral standard accident model under Knightian uncertainty. It focuses on the cost expectation of major harm on which the …
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not only on technological parameters but on preference parameters as well. Moreover, we show that uncertainty does not …
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. First, nominal uncertainty and inflation are positively linked. Second, headline inflation negatively Granger causes out …
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some prior. It is shown that the more uncertainty averse and the more risk averse, the more likely are efficient …
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This chapiter of a collective book is dedicated to classical decision models under uncertainty, i.e. under situations …
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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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