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Investment in pollution prevention technologies are often made under significant uncertainty about the future pay … the timing of investments becomes an important issue for the company. This paper focuses on uncertainty about a future … environmental tax, and shows, within a two period model, that a specific tax uncertainty, standing alone, does not create any …
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The relationship between the concept of option value in the literature on environmental preservation and the financial theory of option value is discussed by Fisher (2000), suggesting an equivalence between the two concepts. In a recent paper, Mensink and Requate (2004) argue that Fisher's claim...
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climate changes faster, and increases if uncertainty is higher. For long-lived investments, these effects reverse. This has …
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We analyse how progressive taxation and education subsidies affect schooling decisions when the returns to education are stochastic. We use the theory of real options to solve the problem of education choice in a dynamic, life-cycle consistent, stochastic model. We show that education attainment...
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We analyse how progressive taxation and education subsidies affect schooling decisions when the returns to education are stochastic. We use the theory of real options to solve the problem of education choice in a dynamic stochastic model. We show that education attainment will be an increasing...
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adoption decision of particular technologies under uncertainty. These technologies are coal-fired power plants, biomassfired …
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We consider optimal stopping problems in uncertain environments for an agent assessing utility by virtue of dynamic variational preferences or, equivalently, assessing risk by dynamic convex risk measures. The solution is achieved by generalizing the approach in terms of multiple priors...
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that all uncertainty is revealed in the limit and agents behave as expected utility maximizer under the true underlying …
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that all uncertainty is revealed in the limit and agents behave as expected utility maximizer under the true underlying …
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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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