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It is known from the literature on uncertainty that in cases where individuals express a preference for a high win-probability bet over a bet with high winnings they nevertheless will bid more to obtain the bet with high winnings. We investigate whether a similar phenomenon applies in the...
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investment. Uncertainty increases real option values making firms more cautious when investing or disinvesting. This is confirmed … both numerically for a model with a rich mix of adjustment costs, time-varying uncertainty, and aggregation over investment … investment response to demand shocks. This implies the responsiveness of firms to any given policy stimulus may be much lower in …
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employment, investment and productivity, and a moderate loss in GDP. This temporary impact of a second moment shock is different …
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alternative with constant risk level implies a higher level of inequality aversion. The experiment was conducted among 211 eight …Inequality aversion and risk aversion are widely assumed features of economic models. But a review of the literature … revealed that inequlity aversion and risk aversion are treated as separate variables. This paper presents exploratory research …
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