There has been a revival of interest in the effect of risk on economic growth. We quantify both ex ante and ex post … effects of risk using a stochastic version of the Ramsey model. We develop a simulation-based econometric methodology which … remarkable long-running panel data set for rural households in Zimbabwe. We find that risk substantially reduces growth: in the …

The risk of investment in schooling has largely been ignored. We assess thevariance in the rate of return by surveying … skewed. Our best guess of ex ante risk in university education is a coefficient ofvariation of about 0.3, comparable to that …

disparities - which hitherto has received limited attention - is the risk people face about their future health. This paper … integrates risk into the standard inequality measurement which measures the extent to which disparities in realized health are … account for risk averse preferences in the assessment of income-related health inequalities. The empirical application using …

We study the optimal taxation of risk-free and excess capital income with heterogeneous rates of return, alongside an … optimal nonlinear earnings tax. Households can hold three assets: one risk-free, one risky but diversifiable, and one a … private investment with idiosyncratic risk whose expected return differs among households. Contrary to expectations, the …

country selection is incorporated into the strategies, but the risk of thestrategies increases proportionally. Second, we test …. We find no evidence of higher market risk or lower liquidity ofthe strategies. Instead, based on the developments of …

commodities and biofuel helps commodity suppliers hedge their portfolios, and manage the risk and co-risk of their biofuel and … should be considered as viable futures products in financial portfolios for risk management. …

CO2 prices must rise at a rate equal to the risk-adjusted interest rate, typically higher than the economic growth rate …. Summing up, CO2 prices must rise at a rate at least equal to the economic growth rate and at most to the risk …

Most sub-Sahara African agriculture is rainfed and the key production risk is crop failure due to drought or … insufficient rains. Major strategies for households to protect against the risk of crop failure are livestock rearing and storage …