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The potential of geoengineering as an alternative or complementary option to mitigation and adaptation has received increased interest in recent years. The scientific assessment of geoengineering is driven to a large extent by assumptions about its effectiveness, costs, and impacts, all of which...
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dividends next period as ambiguous. We calibrate the agent's ambiguity aversion to match only the first moment of the risk …
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This paper extends the procedure developed by Jurado et al. (2015) to allow the estimation of measures of uncertainty that can be attributed to specific structural shocks. This enables researchers to investigate the "origin" of a change in overall macroeconomic uncertainty. To demonstrate the...
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used in risk assessments to estimate extent of and damages from flooding and erosion. Further, such flood risk models can … then include the effects of ecosystems, such as mangroves, to model the effects on risk of conservation and restoration …
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ecosystems play in reducing risk to coastal communities now and with future sealevel rise. These analyses were used to inform … goal is to quantify the role that coastal habitat plays in reducing risk to people and shoreline under current conditions … more than double, and the total population would nearly triple in The Bahamas. Similarly, the population living along high-risk …
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In this paper stochastic dynamic programming is used to investigate habitat conservation by a multitude of landholders under uncertainty about the value of environmental services and irreversible development. We study land conversion under competition on the market for agricultural products when...
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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 climate change and identify some future research...
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This paper presents a choice experiment, which values reductions in mortality risk on Alpine roads. These roads are on … characteristics. To address heterogeneity in preferences for risk reduction, we use a non-linear conditional logit model with …
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This study explores people's risk attitudes after having suffered large real-world losses following a natural disaster … is consistent with prospect theory predictions of the adoption of a risk-seeking attitude after a loss. -- Decision under … Risk ; Large Losses ; Natural Experiment …
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The paper clarifies the link between changes in risk aversion and the effect on the consumption discount rate. In a … rate to a change in risk aversion depends on some fundamental properties of the considered uncertainties. The application … of this general result to specific forms of uncertainty extends existing results to more general forms of risk and yields …
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