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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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This paper proposes risk sharing strategies, which allow insurers to cooperate and diversify non-systemic risk. We deal with both deviation measures and coherent risk measures and provide general mathematical methods applying to optimize them all. Numerical examples are given in order to...
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This article considers an economy where risk is insurable, but selection determines the pool of individuals who take it up. First, we demonstrate that the comparative statics of these economies do not necessarily depend on its marginal selection (adverse versus favorable), but rather other...
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