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Policymakers' Uncertainty
Cieślak, Anna; Hansen, Stephen; McMahon, Michael; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Uncertainty is a ubiquitous concern emphasized by policymakers. We study how uncertainty affects decision-making by the …-managed uncertainty introduces a wedge between the standard Taylor-type policy rule and the optimal decision. Using private Fed …
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Cognitive Uncertainty in Intertemporal Choice
Enke, Benjamin; Graeber, Thomas Wilhelm - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
when a decision is complex, they implicitly treat different time delays to some degree alike. By experimentally measuring … when the decision environment is more complex. Third, cognitive uncertainty matters for choice architecture: people who are …
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Organizational Decision Making Under Uncertainty Shocks
Ballesteros, Luis - 2018
In line with the fallacy of riskification of uncertainty by which decision makers believe that the effects of … institutional theory that points to stakeholder and institutional dynamics affecting economic incentives to invest in prevention and … business continuity. Taken together, this article offers the foundation for a behaviorally plausible, decision …
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Parameter Learning in General Equilibrium : The Asset Pricing Implications
Collin-Dufresne, Pierre - 2013
Parameter learning strongly amplifies the impact of macro shocks on marginal utility when the representative agent has a preference for early resolution of uncertainty. This occurs as rational belief updating generates subjective long-run consumption risks. We consider general equilibrium models...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012458957
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Minimax-Regret Climate Policy with Deep Uncertainty in Climate Modeling and Intergenerational Discounting
DeCanio, Stephen J.; Manski, Charles F.; Sanstad, Alan H. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
) decision criterion to account for deep uncertainty in climate modeling. Here we study choice of climate policy that minimizes … analysis points to use of a relatively low discount rate of 0.02 for climate policy. The MMR decision rule keeps the maximum …
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Pandemic-Era Uncertainty
Meyer, Brent H.; Mihaylov, Emil; Barrero, Jose Maria; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We examine several measures of uncertainty to make five points. First, equity market traders and executives at nonfinancial firms have shared similar assessments about one-year-ahead uncertainty since the pandemic struck. Both the one-year VIX and our survey-based measure of firm-level...
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Financial Innovation, the Discovery of Risk, and the U.S. Credit Crisis
Boz, Emine - 2010
Financial innovation and overconfidence about asset values and the riskiness of new financial products were important factors behind the U.S. credit crisis. We show that a boom-bust cycle in debt, asset prices and consumption characterizes the equilibrium dynamics of a model with a collateral...
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Investment and subjective uncertainty
Bloom, Nicholas; Saporta-Eksten, Itay; Foster, Lucia; … - 2022
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Investment and Subjective Uncertainty
Bloom, Nicholas; Davis, Steven J.; Foster, Lucia; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
A longstanding challenge in evaluating the impact of uncertainty on investment is obtaining measures of managers' subjective uncertainty. We address this challenge by using a detailed new survey measure of subjective uncertainty collected by the U.S. Census Bureau for approximately 25,000...
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Financial Regret at Older Ages and Longevity Awareness
Hurwitz, Abigail; Mitchell, Olivia S. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Older people often express regret about financial decisions made earlier in life that left them susceptible to old-age insecurity. Prior work has explored one outcome, saving regret, or peoples' expressed wish that they had saved more earlier in life. The present paper extends attention to five...
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