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Employment matches under uncertainty are typically accompanied by opportunities for information acquisition. Workers … can acquire specific information about productivity lotteries at the firm or general information affecting their … probabilistic beliefs about work elsewhere. Enterprises can acquire specific information concerning the productivity of a particular …
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This paper examines the optimal allocation of risk in an overlapping-generations economy. It compares the allocation of risk the economy reaches naturally to the allocation that would be reached if generations behind a Rawlsian 'veil of ignorance' could share risk with one another through...
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role of persistence, information, size and insurability of changes in economic resources. We next examine the empirical … and identify the income process or the information set of the individuals. Second, one can assume that the income process … or the amount of information that consumers have are known and tests the implications of the theory. In general there is …
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Typical value-at-risk (VAR) calculations involve the probabilities of extreme dollar losses, based on the statistical distributions of market prices. Such quantities do not account for the fact that the same dollar loss can have two very different economic valuations, depending on business...
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