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Theory predicts that entrepreneurs have distinct attitudes towards risk and uncertainty, but empirical evidence is …
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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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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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This paper distinguishes uncertainty types that differ continuously with respect to the degree to which uncertainty … uncertainty types can lead to quite special results. Monopoly examples of the newsboy problem type are further used to show that … depends crucially on the type of uncertainty and the employed functional forms for utilities and costs. …
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, contracts, or licenses that involve ensuing payoff uncertainty for the winning bidder. The distribution of the random payoff is …
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We study a two-stage R&D project with an abandonment option. Two types of uncertainty influence the decision to start R …&D. Demand uncertainty is modelled as a lottery between a proportional increase and decrease in demand. Technical uncertainty is … modelled as a lottery between a decrease and increase in the cost to continue R&D. We relate differences in uncertainty to …
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their risk aversion parameter invest less in risky assets than wealthy investors with identical risk aversion uncertainty. …
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We propose a novel and numerically efficient quantification approach to forecast uncertainty of the real price of oil …-varying forecast uncertainty and risk for the real price of oil over the period 1974-2018. We show that the combination approach …
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We propose a novel and numerically efficient quantification approach to forecast uncertainty of the real price of oil …-varying forecast uncertainty and risk for the real price of oil over the period 1974-2018. We show that the combination approach …
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