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ideological divide, the US seems destined to heightened levels of policy uncertainty for many years to come. Some research … suggests that such uncertainty, particularly over economic policy, partly explains the sluggish nature of the recovery in … America – and - according to one recent study, restoring policy uncertainty to levels that prevailed before the financial …
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We survey the theoretical and empirical literature on decentralization within firms. We first discuss how the concept of incomplete contracts shapes our views about the organization of decision-making within firms. We then overview the empirical evidence on the determinants of decentralization...
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, emission reductions accounting contains substantial uncertainty as a result of forest carbon stock estimates, where the … 63% in moist forest and 58% in dry forest. Combining forest carbon stock estimates and uncertainty in voluntary carbon … market prices demonstrates the financial impact of uncertainty: potential revenues over the 20-year project ranged between US …
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This paper analyses the design of carbon markets in space (i.e., geographically). It is part of a twin set of papers that, starting from first principles, ask what an optimal global carbon market would look like by around 2030. Our focus is on firm-level cap-and-trade systems, although much of...
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This review article tries to answer four questions: (i) what are the stylized facts about uncertainty over time; (ii …) why does uncertainty vary; (iii) do fluctuations in uncertainty matter; and (iv) did higher uncertainty worsen the Great … Recession of 2007-2009? On the first question both macro and micro uncertainty appears to rise sharply in recessions. On the …
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Weather index insurance is being offered to low-income farmers in developing countries as an alternative to traditional multi-peril crop insurance. There is widespread support for index insurance as a means of climate change adaptation but whether or not these products are themselves resilient...
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This paper analyses the design of carbon markets in time (i.e., intertemporally). It is part of a twin set of papers that ask, starting from first principles, what an optimal global carbon market would look like by around 2030. Our focus is on firm-level cap-and-trade systems, although much of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011126649
This paper explores the sources of uncertainty that cause firms to revise their capital investment plans and the stock … market to revise its valuation of those firms. A simple method is developed to decompose the uncertainty governing revisions … idiosyncratic uncertainty, but common disturbances are more important for movements in the stock market rate of return. …
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This paper investigates the relationship between infation uncertainty and investment using a panel of loan-level data … aggregates. The data show that periods of increased inflation uncertainty are associated with substantial reductions in total … models of investment under uncertainty. …
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Firms need to incur substantial sunk costs to break in foreign markets, yet many give up exporting shortly after their first experience, which typically involves very small sales. Conversely, other new exporters shoot up their foreign sales and expand to new destinations. We investigate a simple...
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