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In this article we analyse the effects of different regulatory schemes (price cap and profit sharing) on a firm’s investment of endogenous size. Using a real option approach in continuous time, we show that profit sharing does not affect a firm’s start-up decision relative to a pure price...
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, we contrast producer liability and minimum quality standard regulation as alternative means of social control of product … relative desirability of strict liability vis-à-vis minimum quality standard regulation from a social welfare standpoint. We … also clarify when and why joint use of strict liability and minimum quality standard regulation welfare dominates the …
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under uncertainty and irreversibility. Unlike other approaches we include accumulative schooling costs, and provide a full …
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This paper deals with three aspects of spectacular oil price episodes such as the one witnessed in 2008. First, the concept of temporary explosiveness is proposed as an empirical method for capturing this type of behavior. The application of a recently proposed recursive unit root test shows...
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The paper studies the interaction between cyclical uncertainty and investment in a stochastic real option framework … of the link between cyclical uncertainty and investment is quantified using simulations of the model. The chief …
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uncertainty about the policy variables in the regulator's objective function: weights attached to profits and costs of public …
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, we contrast producer liability and minimum quality standard regulation as alternative means of social control of product … relative desirability of strict liability vis-à-vis minimum quality standard regulation from a social welfare standpoint. We … also clarify when and why joint use of strict liability and minimum quality standard regulation welfare dominates the …
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Authorities often lack information for efficient regulation of the commons. This paper derives a criterion comparing … prices versus tradable quantities in terms of expected welfare, given uncertainty, optimal policy and endogenous cost …
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The paper studies the interaction between cyclical uncertainty and investment in a stochastic real option framework … of the link between cyclical uncertainty and investment is quantified using simulations of the model. The chief …
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-perpetual real options framework analyzing optimal climate policy under uncertainty. The window-of-opportunity modelling setup shows … implementation of a climate policy is evaded by high uncertainty about possible climate pathways …
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