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Travelers often are incompletely informed about travel alternatives, which has important implications for various domains of travel behavior such as whether or not to make a trip, modal choice, the timing of a trip or route choice. During the last decade large efforts have been made to increase...
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of uncertainty on travel times and the implications this has forestimations of travel time values has received much less … attention in the literature. In thispaper we compare various modelling approaches to address uncertainty and demonstrate … thatignoring uncertainty issues may easily lead to distorted estimates of values of travel time. Thisis of special relevance in …
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use an analytical framework in which wage differentials result from two types of uncertainty. Quantity uncertainty … originates from imperfect foresight in future product demand. I argue that workers who take over part of the quantity uncertainty … from the employer get higher payments. Quality uncertainty on the other hand originates from the fact that employers are ex …
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In this paper we perform a meta-analysis on empirical estimates of the impact between investment and uncertainty. Since … can explain to a large extent why empirical estimates of the investment-uncertainty relationship differ. …
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Biodiversity prospecting refers to the exploration of the commercial value of genetic and biochemical resources. In this chapter, we study a drug producing pharmaceutical firm (PF) that searches for potentially useful chemicals made by wild organisms in a conservation area. This PF is able to...
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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 …
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Most measures of vulnerability are a-theoretic and essentially static. In this paper we use a stochastic Ramsey model to find a household's optimal welfare and we measure vulnerability as the shortfall from the welfare attained if the household consumed permanently at the poverty line. The...
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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