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compensation schemes and ambiguity on insurance and self-insurance decisions. Consistent with theory, we find that government … the purchase of an insurance policy. Thirdly, we find that ambiguity, i.e., uncertainty about probability, significantly … increases WTPs for insurance. This result, which indicates that decision-makers are ambiguity averse, is in line with previous …
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health outcomes conditional on observed patient covariates. Let y be an outcome of interest and let (x=k, w=j) be observed … patient covariates. Suppose a clinician wants to choose a care option that maximizes a patient's expected utility conditional …
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We investigate to what extent workplace unionisation protects workers from external shocks as predicted by models of implicit contracts. Using the COVID-19 pandemic as a plausibly exogenous shock hitting the whole economy, we compare workers who worked in unionised and non-unionised workplaces...
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We investigate to what extent workplace unionisation protects workers from external shocks as predicted by models of implicit contracts. Using the COVID-19 pandemic as a plausibly exogenous shock hitting the whole economy, we compare workers who worked in unionised and non-unionised workplaces...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013500674
The precautionary principle (PP) applied to environmental policy stipulates that, in the presence of physical uncertainty, society must take robust preventive action to guard against worst-case outcomes. It follows that the higher the degree of uncertainty, the more aggressive this preventive...
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context of ambiguity. These effects are also highly gender-specific with only males being susceptible. To probe the emotional …
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only possible if all discounted net trades of the equilibrium allocation are mean ambiguity-free. …
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decisions on risk assessment and risk management under conditions of ambiguity, i.e. where probabilities cannot be assigned to … current discussion. One charges the agency to apply welfare economics based on expected utility theory. This approach … underpins conventional cost-benet analysis (CBA). The other requires that an ambiguity-averse decision-rule - of which maxmin …
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identify axioms under which the set of probabilities and the utility index representing $\succsim^{\ast}$ are the same as those … utility completions. …
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This paper provides the first empirical attempt of linking firms' profits and investment in R&D revisiting Knight's (1921) distinction between uncertainty and risk. Along with the risky profit-maximizing scenario, identifying a second, off-setting, unpredictable bias that leads to heterogeneous...
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