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government's role in promoting risk sharing. Benefits for each retired person may be tied to that person's lifetime income …
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This paper examines the risk aspects of an investment-based defined contribution Social Security plan. We focus on the … risk after the plan is fully phased in. Individuals deposit a fraction of wages to a Personal Retirement Account (PRA … cushion' that protects the individual from the risk of an unacceptably low level of benefits. For example, PRA deposits of 6 …
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towards risk. We find that the uncertainty associated with anthropogenic climate change imply carbon taxes much higher than …
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Using climate change as a prototype motivating example, this paper analyzes the implications of structural uncertainty for the economics of low-probability high-impact catastrophes. The paper shows that having an uncertain multiplicative parameter, which scales or amplifies exogenous shocks and...
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We propose and implement a procedure to dynamically hedge climate change risk. To create our hedge target, we extract … hedge portfolios. We discipline the exercise by using third-party ESG scores of firms to model their climate risk exposures … managing climate risk …
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The paper illustrates how one may assess our comprehensive uncertainty about the various relations in the entire chain from human activity to climate change. Using a modified version of the RICE model of the global economy and climate, we perform Monte Carlo simulations, where full sets of...
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We investigate whether stock markets efficiently price risks brought on or exacerbated by climate change. We focus on drought, the most damaging natural disaster for crops and food-company cash flows. We show that prolonged drought in a country, measured by the Palmer Drought Severity Index...
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number of features including potential tail risk, exogenous and endogenous technological change, and backstop technologies … delay. We decompose the optimal carbon price into two components: expected discounted damages and the risk premium …
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The economics of climate change involves a vast array of uncertainties, complicating both the analysis and development of climate policy. This study presents the results of the first comprehensive study of uncertainty in climate change using multiple integrated assessment models. The study looks...
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In the typical asset market, an asset featuring uninsurable idiosyncratic risk must offer a higher rate of return to … compensate risk-averse investors. A home offers a standard asset's risk and return opportunities, but it also bundles access to … research design will underestimate the valuation of climate risk for households in low-risk cities while overestimating the …
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