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Modeling uncertainty in large natural resource allocation problems

Cai, Yongyang; Steinbuks, Jevgenijs; Judd, Kenneth L.; … - 2020

The productivity of the world's natural resources is critically dependent on a variety of highly uncertain factors, which obscure individual investors and governments that seek to make long-term, sometimes irreversible investments in their exploration and utilization. These dynamic...

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Measuring natural risks in the Philippines : socioeconomic resilience and wellbeing losses

Walsh, Brian; Hallegatte, Stéphane - 2019

Traditional risk assessments use asset losses as the main metric to measure the severity of a disaster. This paper … proposes an expanded risk assessment based on a framework that adds socioeconomic resilience and uses wellbeing losses as its … reconstruction process at the household level, this risk assessment provides new insights into disaster risks in the Philippines …

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Macro-financial aspects of climate change

Feyen, Erik; Utz, Robert; Zuccardi Huertas, Igor Esteban; … - 2020

This paper examines the interaction between macro-financial and climate-related risks. It brings together different strands of the literature on climate-related risks and how these relate to macro-financial management and risks. Physical impacts of climate change as well as the transition toward...

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Growth and risk : a view from international trade

Krishna, Pravin; Levchenko, Andrei A.; Maloney, William F. - 2020

This paper studies the cross-country patterns of risky innovation and growth through the lens of international trade. It uses a simple theoretical framework of risky quality upgrading by firms under varying levels of financial development to derive two predictions. First, the mean rate of...

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