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This paper discusses methods to quantify risk and uncertainty in macroeconomic forecasts. Both, parametric and non … macroeconometric model of the Bundesbank for Germany. Forecast intervals that integrate judgement on risk and uncertainty are obtained. …
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We present a tractable model of the effects of nonfinancial risk on intertemporal choice. Our purpose is to provide a … economy, where most modelers have chosen not to incorporate serious nonfinancial risk because available methods were too … most of the key implications of nonfinancial risk for intertemporal choice. …
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The budget constraint requires that, eventually, consumption must adjust fully to any permanent shock to income. Intuition suggests that, knowing this, optimizing agents will fully adjust their spending immediately upon experiencing a permanent shock. However, this paper shows that if consumers...
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discuss the transaction attributes 'asset specificity' and 'uncertainty' and identify conceptual gaps that lead to ambiguous …
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China has turned from a 'low risk' to a 'high risk' society since the start of the market reforms in the late 1970s … exposure and vulnerability to them unequally among different social groups. This paper attempts to apply the risk concept to … this family, and explore the relationships between livelihood, risk, social networks, agency and public policy …
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This note considers the treatment of risk and uncertainty in the recently established social cost of carbon (SCC) for … discounting, it mis-estimated climate risk, possibly hugely. Given the uncertainty about estimating the SCC, the note concludes by …
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This paper is devoted to risk management and risk measurement methods. The author considers methods of risk measurement … and proposes the Inte- gral Sum of Differential Weighted Indexes of Risks (or ISDWIR) method of risk measurement. The … method is based on dynamic enterprise risk matri- ces. The matrix describes the changes of corporate risk values over the …
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uncertainty which persists in spite of superficial similarities. It is argued that the difference stems from the mainstream habit … of thinking in terms of a full-information benchmark, where uncertainty arises from incomplete information. Degrees of … uncertainty (or ambiguity) refer to the quantifiable extent of incompleteness. In contrast, Keynesian uncertainty cannot, even in …
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The purpose of this paper is to analyze the influence of uncertainty on the value of real options while allowing for a … uncertainty does not hold, if the value of the underlying asset changes due to a Variation of the Standard deviation. Only if the … underlying risk is unsystematic or the binding relation between risk and return is neglected, the strictly positive effect of …
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although risk can be measured, uncertainty cannot be measured. Even though risk can be measured, a simple symmetric measure … attempt at "measuring" risk or (fundamental) uncertainty is flawed. … surge in the stock market would be self-correcting. Recent papers have discussed the role of "uncertainty" and its …
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