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-run climate feedbacks. Our non-certainty-equivalent rule for the SCC incorporates precaution, risk insurance, and climate …
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We study optimal selling strategies of a seller who is poorly informed about the buyer’s value for the object. When the maxmin seller only knows that the mean of the distribution of the buyer’s valuations belongs to some interval then nature can keep him to payoff zero no matter how much...
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The optimal social cost of carbon is in general equilibrium proportional to GDP if utility is logarithmic, production is Cobb-Douglas, depreciation in 100% every period, climate damages as fraction of production decline exponentially with the stock of atmospheric carbon, and fossil fuel...
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In this paper, we apply a convex hull approach to counterfactual analysis of trade openness and growth. The experiments we choose evaluate the importance of trade openness for growth across African countries. Specifically, we ask the question what would happen if African countries were more...
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This paper proposes a decision-theoretic framework for experiment design. We model experimenters as ambiguity …-averse decision-makers, who make trade-offs between subjective expected performance and robustness. This framework accounts for … sample size is large enough or robustness is an important concern. We illustrate the practical value of such a framework by …
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Assessing the robustness of the results of econometric analysis is a long standing subject of lively research. The … that increased attention to influential sets is warranted and comprehensive robustness measures for regression analysis are …
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We show that ambiguity aversion increases the value of a statistical life as soon as the marginal utility of wealth is … higher if alive than dead. The intuition is that ambiguity aversion has a similar effect as an increase in the perceived … baseline mortality risk, and thus operates as the "dead anyway" effect. We suggest, however, that ambiguity aversion should …
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We study risk attitudes, ambiguity attitudes, and time preferences of 661 children and adolescents, aged ten to … mass index, are less likely to save money and show worse conduct at school. Experimental measures for risk and ambiguity …
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-checking may also increase the ambiguity of politicians' statements. …
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avoid ambiguity even when it means choosing dominated options. In contrast to the literature, we find that 55% of subjects … that such a preference is not mainly due to a lack of understanding. We conclude that subjects avoid ambiguity per se … rather than avoiding ambiguity because it may yield a worse outcome. Such behavior cannot be reconciled with existing models …
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