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Abstract: In this note we sketch a dynamic framework within which the discussion on the macro economic effects of climate change take place. The problem setting is characterized by scientific uncertainties about the development of climate, potential large economic losses and human beings having...
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toward uncertainty.Unlike previous models of innovation, the firm-formation process is endogenous.An entrepreneur, who owns … residual profits, utilizes an uncertain technology and hires a worker who may only be partially isolated from uncertainty … the nature of the firm. The relationship between technological uncertainty and the nature of the firm is able to explain …
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How to compensate people who provide relevant information to a decision-maker who faces uncertainty?This paper suggests …
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player takes almost the whole surplus, provided uncertainty is small.If commitments concern only who makes the first offer …
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This paper considers the problem of investment timing under uncertainty in a duopoly framework.When both firms want to …
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.Kulatilaka and Perotti [1998, Management Science] nd that, in a two-period model, increased product market uncertainty could … increases with uncertainty.In contrast with the two-period model, despite the existence of the strategic option of becoming a … market leader due to a lower marginal cost, more uncertainty always increases the expected time to invest.Furthermore, it is …
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Organization), the analysis of the e.ects of uncertainty within this field is yet underdeveloped.This paper shows that the new … regarding asymmetry, technology adoption and decreasing uncertainty over time are reviewed.Among others, it is found that the …
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