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degree of pessimism of the representative agent is the mean of the individual ones weighted by their index of absolute risk …
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-form expressions of welfare loss from shocks and epistemological uncertainty identify the interaction of (intertemporal) risk attitude … is comparable to numeric models used in policy advising. Uncertainty surrounding climate change remains large. The closed …, distributional moments, and the climatic shadow values. Welfare gains from reducing uncertainty about temperature feedbacks are much …
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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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their own risk preferences. The observed allocations are consistent with four different views of justice under uncertainty. … 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 …
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scientific uncertainty about the effects of increased greenhouse gas concentrations on climate. Criticisms of this controversial …
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of IEA formation when countries are risk neutral and another that explores the implications of uncertainty and risk …This paper analyses the formation of international environmental agreements (IEAs) under uncertainty, focusing on the … role of learning and risk aversion. It bridges two strands of literature: one focused on the role learning for the success …
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choice deviate from what citizens want but that an increase in uncertainty about policy outcomes decreases this distortion. …
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acquiring or processing information acquire less information. Finally, an exogenous increase in the perceived uncertainty of the …
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In this paper we offer an analysis of the effects of uncertainty about future tax policy on irreversible investment …. The main message of the paper is that investment is not much affected by the degreee of tax policy uncertainty. This is … that reducing tax policy uncertainty is probably no magic bullet to increase private investment spending …
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-level uncertainty and imperfect information over their life cycle. We find that firms make non-negligible and positively correlated … informed. Moreover, young firms tend to wait long before entering or exiting the market faced with high uncertainty about their …
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