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A man is a key subject of economics. “A man is irrational” - this opinion can be made from Allais paradox, risk …
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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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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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, gas, and renewable power plants). It finds that optimal investment in renewable energy may start before coal power has … been phased out and even before investment in gas has started, because doing so allows for smoothing investment over time … and reduces adjustment costs. Gas plants may be used to reduce short-term investment in renewable power and associated …
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represented by the decrease in entropy of his beliefs, regardless of his preferences, initial wealth, or investment problem. We …
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sector to study the impact of investment subsidies on equilibrium investment and output. Energy and capital are assumed to be … structures are considered for the energy market, free entry and natural monopoly. First, it is shown that investment subsidies … may induce a larger equilibrium investment into cleaner technologies either under free entry or natural monopoly. However …
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contractual relationships that link exports from Sub-Saharan Africa to China and investment by Chinese firms in Sub-Saharan Africa … combine trade, aid and investment, which may create 'lock-in' effects. China's trade and investment focus on the commodities … that are produced by African countries, which are crucial inputs in China's growth, with the risk of a growing dependence …
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adjustment costs on investment. …
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Complicated neoclassical models predict that if investment is sensitive to current financial performance, this is a …, refers to the principle of "growth of the fitter" to explain investment-cash flow sensitivities as the workings of a healthy …
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This paper presents a comparable set of results on the monetary transmission channels on firm investment (the interest … those countries,investment relationships are estimated explaining investment by its user cost, sales and cash flow.A first … result is that investment is sensitive to user cost changes in all those four countries. Thisimplies an operative interest …
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