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Does climate change make foodgrain yields more unpredictable : evidence from India
Verma, Saumya; Gupta, Shreekant; Sen, Partha - 2020
How would climate change affect India’s agriculture which accounts for sixty percent of employment? We study the impact … of climate change on the level and variability of yields of rice (India’s major food crop) and two key millet crops … (sorghum and pearl millet), using an all India district level panel dataset from 1966-2011. A stochastic production function is …
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Achieving sustainable energy security : 2030 outlook for ASEAN, People Republic of China and India
Fan, Ying; Bhattacharyay, Biswanath - 2015
The rapid growth of ASEAN economies, the People's Republic of China and India (called ACI henceforth) - major drivers …
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Extreme weather and inter-state migration in India
Richa, Richa; Noy, Ilan; Sen, Subir - 2024
objective of this paper is to examine the inter-linkages between weather, disasters, and migration, in India. To examine the …
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Using chebyshev polynomials to approximate partial differential equations
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria (contributor);  … - 2008
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Extracting leading indicators of bank fragility from market prices : Estonia focus
Chen, Yu-Fu (contributor); Funke, Michael (contributor);  … - 2006
Banking reform has proved to be one of the most problematic elements of economic transition in central and Eastern Europe. Therefore the paper considers the development of the Estonian banking sector and derives individual banks ́fragility scores during transition. To this end we use...
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Incentives to (irreversible) investments under different regulatory regimes
Scarpa, Carlo; Panteghini, Paolo - 2001
This paper addresses the issue of how regulatory constraints affect firm's investment choices when the firm has the option to delay investment. The RPI-x rule is compared to a profit sharing rule, which increases the x factor in case profits go beyond a given level. It is shown that these rules...
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A structural model of tenure and specific investments
Teulings, Coen N.; Ende, Martin Adriaan van der - 2001
Though a lot of work has been done on the distribution of job tenures, we are still uncertain about its main determinants. In this paper, we stress random shocks to match productivity after the start of an employment relation. The specificity of investment makes hiring and separation decisions...
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Hidden skewness : on the difficulty of multiplicative compounding under random shocks
Ensthaler, Ludwig; Nottmeyer, Olga; Weizsäcker, Georg; … - 2014
Multiplicative growth processes that are subject to random shocks often have a skewed distribution of outcomes. In a number of incentivized laboratory experiments we show that a large majority of participants either strongly underestimate skewness or ignore it completely. Participants...
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Corporate debt, hybrid securities and the effective tax rate
Panteghini, Paolo (contributor) - 2008
In this article we use contingent-claim analysis to calculate the effective tax rate (ETR) under corporate debt finance. In particular, we deal with both pure debt and two of the most well-known hybrid securities, i.e., convertible, and reverse convertible bonds. We show that: 1) effective...
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Taxation under uncertainty problems of dynamic programming and contingent claims analysis in real option theory
Niemann, Rainer; Sureth, Caren - 2002
This article deals with the integration of taxes into real option-based investment models under risk neutrality and risk averison. It compares the possible approaches dynamic programming and contingent claims analysis to analyze their effects on the optimal investment rules before and after...
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