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and probabilities are adjusted for risk, the two approaches are identical. What we would wish a reader to take away from …
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resolution of risk, (iii) show different discounting formulas depending on the magnitude of risk and on the timing of its …The paper reexamines the welfare economics of intergenerational risk. Risk and its resolution over time are modeled as … preferences to (i) disentangle aversion to intergenerational inequality from aversion to risk, (ii) exhibit a preference for early …
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The Ramsey rule for the consumption rate of discount assumes a transfer of money of a (representative) agent at one point in time to the same agent at another point in time. Climate policy (implicitly) transfers money not just over time but also between agents. I propose three alternative...
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assumption of (intertemporal) risk neutrality reduces the growth effect in social discounting and significantly amplifies the … importance of risk and correlation. Second, debate and models largely overlook the difference in attitude with respect to risk … and with respect to non-risk uncertainty. The paper derives the resulting changes of the risk-free and the stochastic …
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rate. We reconcile the two approaches by introducing risk aversion and risk-neutral probabilities. We show that if the …
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If the threshold that triggers climate catastrophe is known with certainty, and the benefits of avoiding catastrophe are high relative to the costs, treaties can easily coordinate countries’ behavior so as to avoid the threshold. Where the net benefits of avoiding catastrophe are lower,...
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This paper explores the introduction of collective risk-sharing elements in defined contribution pension contracts. We … consider status-contingent, age-contingent and asset contingent risk-sharing arrangements. All arrangements raise aggregate …
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We investigate the trade-off between the risk-sharing gains enjoyed by more interconnected firms and the costs … resulting from an increased risk exposure. We find that when the shock distribution displays “fat” tails, extreme segmentation …
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In higher education, pure credit market funding leads to underinvestment due to insufficient risk pooling, while pure …
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We propose a new criterion which reflects both the concern for welfare (utility) and the concern for rights in the evaluation of economic development paths. The concern for rights is captured by a pre-ordering over combinations of thresholds (floors or ceilings on various quantitative...
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