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 …

This paper analyses the effect of uncertainty on investment spending. We analyse twotypes of investment, i.e. aggregate … investment and investment in energy saving technologies,using subjective evaluations of expectations and uncertainty of Dutch … general investment spending. Furthermore, expectationsand uncertainty have important although different effects on investment …

data from a representative Dutch household panel to study the impact of uncertainty regarding one's savings adequacy on … economics that provide opposing predictions regarding the impact of uncertainty on retirement savings contributions. Our results … indicate that the effect of uncertainty is moderated by two factors: an individual's perceived adequacy of current savings and …

of uncertainty on travel times and the implications this has forestimations of travel time values has received much less … attention in the literature. In thispaper we compare various modelling approaches to address uncertainty and demonstrate … thatignoring uncertainty issues may easily lead to distorted estimates of values of travel time. Thisis of special relevance in …

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 …

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. …