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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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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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-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 … studying the issue of rerandomization. Rerandomization creates a trade-off between subjective performance and robustness …
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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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This paper analyses the direct and indirect trade volume and trade cost effects of uncertainty on international trade … to 2018. Our results suggest that an increase in unilateral uncertainty affects average trade costs in a heterogeneous … manner, depending on whether the uncertainty originates from the importing or exporting country. Moreover, using a cross …
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This paper investigates the effects of uncertainty on the macro economy by replicating its micro effects on individual … the two scenarios through the empirical macroeconomic uncertainty index. The higher the macroeconomic uncertainty is, the … appropriate level of ambiguity aversion outperforms the benchmark model with no uncertainty in fitting the US output growth rate …
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This paper analyses the formation of international environmental agreements (IEAs) under uncertainty, focusing on the … of IEA formation when countries are risk neutral and another that explores the implications of uncertainty and risk …
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prices versus tradable quantities in terms of expected welfare, given uncertainty, optimal policy and endogenous cost …
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uncertainty on firms' decisions and market outcomes. We construct alternative measures of uncertainty based on survey of … index, and fuel prices. Our results indicate that greater uncertainty has a negative impact on growth of employment and the … generally non-existent or weaker. Our results suggest that to truly understand the effects of uncertainty on firms' decisions …
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some recipients are exposed to uncertainty. Although, under certainty almost all uninvolved participants distribute … resources equally, they exhibit remarkable heterogeneity in just allocations under uncertainty. Moreover, uninvolved … participants allocate on average less to recipients exposed to higher degrees of uncertainty and allocations are correlated with …
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