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This paper distinguishes uncertainty types that differ continuously with respect to the degree to which uncertainty affects the optimal price/price markup or optimal quantity. A monopoly example is used to show that seemingly strong assumptions on functional forms can represent a wide variety of...
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In this paper we perform a meta-analysis on empirical estimates of the impact between investment and uncertainty. Since the outcomes of primary studies are largely incomparable with respect to the magnitude of the effect, our analysis focuses on the direction and statistical significance of the...
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In the face of capacity disruptions (due, for example, to traffic incidents or poor weather), information provision and …-dependent congestion pricing and habitual stateindependent pricing, and three information provision regimes: no information, perfect … information and imperfect information. We find that, without information provision, the habitual toll equals the expected MEC …
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the last decade large efforts have been made to increase the availability of information to travelers by means of advanced … traveler information systems (ATIS). This paper reviews economic aspects of information in transport markets. First, I will … discuss information acquisition from an economics perspective by characterizing costs and benefits of information, leading to …
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We develop a novel argument why better public information can help countries to insure against idiosyncratic risk … and engage in risk-sharing contracts with limited enforceability. Better public information has two opposite effects …). Second, it mitigates the adverse selection problem resulting from private information which improves risk sharing. We find …
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In the search for effective pesticide risk management tools, the design of pesticide risk indicators is nowadays receiving increasing attention as a complement to more established regulatory strategies. In the present paper, we apply some recently developed pesticide risk indices and test their...
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