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Travelers often are incompletely informed about travel alternatives, which has important implications for various domains of travel behavior such as whether or not to make a trip, modal choice, the timing of a trip or route choice. During the last decade large efforts have been made to increase...
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use an analytical framework in which wage differentials result from two types of uncertainty. Quantity uncertainty … originates from imperfect foresight in future product demand. I argue that workers who take over part of the quantity uncertainty … from the employer get higher payments. Quality uncertainty on the other hand originates from the fact that employers are ex …
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When hiring an adviser (he), a policy maker (she) often faces the problem that she has incomplete information about his preferences. Some advisers are good, in the sense that their preferences are closely aligned to the policy maker's preferences, and some advisers are bad. Recently, some...
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In this paper we perform a meta-analysis on empirical estimates of the impact between investment and uncertainty. Since … can explain to a large extent why empirical estimates of the investment-uncertainty relationship differ. …
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How does risk or uncertainty in the productivity of research affect the growth rate of the economy? To answer this …&D from profit-maximizing firms. The uncertainty arises from the productivity of these investments in R&D. The main result of … this analysis is that the relationship between long-run growth and uncertainty (on the productivity of knowledge creation …
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We study a model of collective decision making with endogenous information collection. Agents collect information about the consequences of a project, communicate, and then vote on the project. We examine under what conditions communication may increase the probability that good decisions are...
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is, the growth-uncertainty relationship depends on whether returns to scale in knowledge creation are increasing or non …
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Various plants and resources such as orchards are vulnerable to the detrimental effects of successful invasions by alien animal or plant species. To outline an appropriate policy response, we first use renewal theory to construct a stochastic model of optimal orchard management in the presence...
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This paper analyses the effect of uncertainty on investment spending. We analyse two types of investment, i ….e. aggregate investment and investment in energy saving technologies, using subjective evaluations of expectations and uncertainty … of general investment spending. Furthermore, expectations and uncertainty have important although different effects on …
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countries. An overall evaluation requires that attention is given to the perception and endogeneity of uncertainty …
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