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In this paper we compare the results of two different expert elicitation methods: in-person interviews and a self-administered web-based survey. Traditional expert elicitation has been done face to face, with an elicitor meeting with an expert for a few hours to several days, depending on the...
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under uncertainty about the value of environmental services and irreversible development. We study land conversion under … adequate participation in a conservation plan. We analytically determine the impact of uncertainty and optimal policy …
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Uncertainty plays a key role in the economics of climate change, and the discussions surrounding its implications for … climate policy are far from settled. We give an overview of the literature on uncertainty in integrated assessment models of … complementary approaches that model uncertainty in association with integrated assessment models: the discrete uncertainty modeling …
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This paper presents a choice experiment, which values reductions in mortality risk on Alpine roads. These roads are on one hand threatened by common road hazards, on the other hand they are also endangered by natural hazards such as avalanches and rockfalls. Drawing on choice data from...
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This study explores people's risk attitudes after having suffered large real-world losses following a natural disaster. Using the margins of the 2011 Australian floods (Brisbane) as a natural experimental setting, we find that homeowners who were victims of the floods and face large losses in...
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general framework that can cope with various forms of uncertainty, it is shown that the response of the consumption discount … of this general result to specific forms of uncertainty extends existing results to more general forms of risk and yields … a new result on preference uncertainty. …
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This paper empirically estimates a micro-founded model which studies the macroeconomic impact of environmental and financial risks on consumption choices in the Mediterranean Region. The analysis is carried out using time series aggregate data for fourteen Mediterranean countries over the period...
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We address the problem of choosing a portfolio of policies under "deep uncertainty." We introduce the idea of belief …
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Uncertainty is prevalent in the context of climate change impacts. Moreover, the distribution across the globe is not …
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This paper studies the empirical relationship between consumption and saving under two different sources of uncertainty … ; Financial Risk ; Environmental Risk ; Prudence ; Relative Risk Aversion ; Uncertainty …
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