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Husby, Trond G.; Groot, Henri L. F. de; Hofkes, Marjan W.; … - 2013

This study investigates the short- and long-run impact on population dynamics of the major flood in the Netherlands in 1953. A dynamic difference-in-differences analysis reveals that the flood had an immediate negative impact on population growth, but limited long term effects. In contrast, the...

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Expected utility and catastrophic risk

Ikefuji, Masako; Laeven, Roger; Magnus, Jan R.; Muris, Chris - 2014

An expected utility based cost-benefit analysis is in general fragile to its distributional assumptions. We derive necessary and sufficient conditions on the utility function of the expected utility model to avoid this. The conditions ensure that expected (marginal) utility remains finite also...

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How costly is using livestock as a saving device? : a note on meat prices during food shortages

Zant, Wouter - 2020

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Adaptive mixture of student-t distributions as a flexible candidate distribution for efficient simulation : the R package AdMit

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