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Higher order risk preferences : new experimental measures, determinants and field behavior
Schneider, Sebastian O.; Sutter, Matthias - 2020 - Version of August, 2020
We use a novel method to elicit and measure higher order risk preferences (prudence and temperance) in an experiment … prudence are strongly related to adolescents' field behavior, including their financial decision making, eco-friendly behavior …, and health status, including addictive behavior. Most importantly, we show that dropping prudence and temperance from the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012270596
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A critique of the literature on the US financial debt crisis
Stein, Jerome L. - 2010
A healthy financial system encourages the efficient allocation of capital and risk. The collapse of the house price bubble led to the financial crisis that started in 2007. There is a large empirical literature concerning the relation between asset price bubbles and financial crises. I evaluate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003936616
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Closed-form integrated assessment and uncertainty
Traeger, Christian - 2015
The paper derives the optimal carbon tax in closed-form from an integrated assessment of climate change. The formula shows how carbon, temperature, and economic dynamics quantify the optimal mitigation effort. The model's descriptive power is comparable to numeric models used in policy advising....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011305430
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Pay few subjects but pay them well : cost-effectiveness of random incentive systems
March, Christoph; Ziegelmeyer, Anthony; Greiner, Ben; … - 2016
Most large-scale economic experiments use a between-subjects random incentive system-BRIS-which selects a subset of the participants at random and offers real payment only to the selected participants. We evaluate the relative impact of nominal payoffs and the selection probability on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011500169
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The social cost of carbon with intragenerational inequality under economic uncertainty
Ploeg, Frederick van der; Emmerling, Johannes; Groom, … - 2022
A formula is derived for the social cost of carbon (SCC) that takes account of intragenerational income inequality and its evolution with economic growth. The social discount rate (SDR) should be adjusted to account for intragenerational and intergenerational inequality aversion and for risk...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013206181
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Loss aversion, risk aversion, and the shape of the probability weighting function
Rablen, Matthew D. - 2023
Loss aversion, risk aversion, and the probability weighting function (PWF) are three central concepts in explaining decisionmaking under risk. I examine interlinkages between these concepts in a model of decisionmaking that allows for loss averse/tolerant stochastic reference dependence and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014292798
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Risk aversion and prudence in contests
Sahm, Marco - 2017
' comparative prudence under which a higher common level of risk aversion leads to lower aggregate effort in symmetric contests …
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Apportioning of risks via stochastic dominance
Eeckhoudt, Louis R. (contributor);  … - 2008
effects ; prudence ; risk apportionment ; risk aversion ; stochastic dominance ; temperance …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003790970
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Once upon a time preference : how rationality and risk aversion change the rationale for discounting
Traeger, Christian - 2012
The paper develops an axiomatic framework for rational decision making. The von Neumann-Morgenstern axioms give rise to a richer risk attitude than that captured in the standard discounted expected utility model. I derive three models that permit a more comprehensive risk evaluation. These...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009533970
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Why uncertainty matters : discounting under intertemporal risk aversion and ambiguity
Traeger, Christian - 2012
Uncertainty has an almost negligible impact on project value in the economic standard model. I show that a comprehensive evaluation of uncertainty and uncertainty attitude changes this picture fundamentally. The analysis relies on the discount rate, which is the crucial determinant in balancing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009488887