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composition of the optimal mix as both persuade the risk-averse social planner to invest more in mitigation. Overall, we identify …
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We address the problem of choosing a portfolio of policies under "deep uncertainty." We introduce the idea of belief dominance as a way to derive a set of non-dominated portfolios and robust individual alternatives. Our approach departs from the tradition of providing a single recommended...
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We review some of the (theoretical) economic implications of David Schmeidler's models of decision under uncertainty (Choquet expected utility and maxmin expected utility) in competitive market settings. We start with the portfolio inertia result of Dow and Werlang (1992), show how it does or...
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: financial risk and environmental risk. The analysis is carried out using time series data for six advanced economies in the … period 1965-2007. The results support the theoretical conclusions that both financial risk alone and the interaction between … empirical analysis performed with one-argument utility functions. Finally, we provide new estimates of indexes of relative risk …
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in the spirit of the literature on precautionary savings. We find that boundedness of the utility function, in particular … risk aversion is sufficient. These results highlight the importance of the specification of the utility function and its …
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The Allais critique of expected utility theory (EUT) has led to the development of theories of choice under risk that …
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data with a broad class of models of choice under risk and under uncertainty. Our method allows for risk loving and elation …
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