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Growth and risk : methodology and micro evidence

Elbers, Chris; Gunning, Jan Willem; Kinsey, Bill H. - 2006 - Rev.

There has been a revival of interest in the effect of risk on economic growth. We quantify both ex ante and ex post … effects of risk using a stochastic version of the Ramsey model. We develop a simulation-based econometric methodology which … remarkable long-running panel data set for rural households in Zimbabwe. We find that risk substantially reduces growth: in the …

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Vulnerability in a stochastic dynamic model

Elbers, Chris; Gunning, Jan Willem - 2003 - Rev.

Most measures of vulnerability are a-theoretic and essentially static. In this paper we use a stochastic Ramsey model to find a household's optimal welfare and we measure vulnerability as the shortfall from the welfare attained if the household consumed permanently at the poverty line. The...

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How risky is investment in human capital?

Hartog, Joop; Ophem, Hans van; Bajdechi, Simona Maria - 2004

The risk of investment in schooling has largely been ignored. We assess thevariance in the rate of return by surveying … skewed. Our best guess of ex ante risk in university education is a coefficient ofvariation of about 0.3, comparable to that …

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Does Stableford scoring incentivize more aggressive golf?

Garcia, Jose M.; Stephenson, E. Frank - In: Journal of sports economics 16 (2015) 6, pp. 647-663

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Bundling and unbundling in public-private partnerships : implications for risk sharing in urban transport projects

Carpintero, Samuel; Petersen, Ole Helby - In: Project management journal : PMJ 46 (2015) 4, pp. 35-46

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Information, knowledge, and investing in offshore financial markets

Clark, Gordon L. - In: Journal of sustainable finance & investment 4 (2014) 4, pp. 299-320

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Concerns for the poorly off in ordering risky prospects

Bovens, Luc - In: Economics & philosophy 31 (2015) 3, pp. 397-429

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Fat-tailed uncertainty, learning, and climate policy

Bistline, John E. - In: Climate change economics 6 (2015) 2, pp. 1-21

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Stochastically induced critical depensation and risk of stock collapse

Poudel, Diwakar; Sandal, Leif K.; Kvamsdal, Sturla Furunes - In: Marine resource economics 30 (2015) 3, pp. 297-313

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Generalized almost stochastic dominance

Tsetlin, Ilia; Winkler, Robert L.; Huang, Rachel J.; … - In: Operations research 63 (2015) 2, pp. 363-377

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