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This article considers the effects of uncertainty, structure, trust and resistance to change on the success or failure … density of ties within organizational units and ties between organizational units. Uncertainty represents the degree of … controversy that is often inherent to management accounting innovation and change. Initially, organizational actors can be in …
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This paper analyzes the impact of hyperbolic discounting preferences on theagent's information acquisition decision who wants to undertake a potentialdangerous activity for human health or the environment. We find that belowcertain discount rate threshold, an agent prefers ignoring information...
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We develop a dynamic game to provide with a theory of Arab spring-type events. We consider two interacting groups, the elite vs the citizens, two political regimes, dictatorship vs a freer regime, the possibility to switch from the first to the second regime as a consequence of a revolution, and...
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This paper analyses the distributional effects of alternative scenarios of carbon taxes on car fuels using disaggregated French panel data from 2003 to 2006. It incorporates household price responsiveness that differs across income groups into a consumer surplus measure of tax burden. Carbon...
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vulnerability to peak oil. Climate policies, therefore, appear as a hedging strategy against the uncertainty on oil resources, in …
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Theories of justice in the spirit of Rawls and Harsanyi argue that fair-minded people should aspire to make choices for society as if in the original position, that is, behind a veil of ignorance that prevents them from knowing their own social positions. In this paper, we provide a fairly...
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in the Choquet Uncertainty model, letting u and μ (v and ν) be Ursula's (Victor's) utility and capacity. A necessary and … sufficient condition (A) on the pairs (u, μ) and (v, ν) will be presented for dichotomous weak increased uncertainty aversion … indifferent. Condition A is thus a characterization of weak increased uncertainty aversion for convex f. An example will be …
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We propose an ethical viewpoint based on the possibility of the realization of the worst-case scenario in order to reduce future generations risks in terms of discounting. Applied to the question of conservation of a renewable resource, we show that an economy, where the social planner takes...
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We develop an axiomatic approach to decision under uncertainty that explicitly takes into account the information …
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We provide a general theorem on the aggregation of preferences under uncertainty. We study, in the Anscombe …-Aumann setting a wide class of preferences, that includes most known models of decision under uncertainty (and state …". The latter means that society cannot have a non-neutral attitude towards uncertainty on a subclass of acts. A corollary to …
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