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This paper studies two-part tariffs with explicit consideration of cost uncertainty and risk aversion. It finds that … firms charge a risk premium over expected marginal cost for each unit they sell. This pricing rule is socially optimal if … and only if the modeled market is fully covered in equilibrium. A risk-averse monopoly tends to generate less aggregate …
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This survey aims to provide an overview of recent developments in the industrial organization literature that explores the behavior of profit-maximizing firms facing consumers with reference-dependent preferences and loss aversion. We discuss the implications of loss aversion on the practice of...
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We study option pricing and hedging with uncertainty about a Black-Scholes reference model which is dynamically recalibrated to the market price of a liquidly traded vanilla option. For dynamic trading in the underlying asset and this vanilla option, delta-vega hedging is asymptotically optimal...
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The paper studies an duopoly with risk averse firms exposed to demand uncertainty. A risk sharing market is introduced …
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-)variance of power plant profits. If investors are risk-averse, these differ- ences lead to divergent investment portfolios …, breaking the equivalence of price- and quantity-based policy instruments under risk-neutrality. Using the European power sector … with increasing risk aversion. …
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regularities by developing a new firmbased trade model wherein managers are risk averse. Higher volatility induces the reallocation …
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firms under certainty. This paper extends the theory by further investigating the effects of regret-aversion on production …. We compare the optimal output levels of regret-averse firms with purely risk- averse firms under uncertainty and firms … under certainty. We first show that the linear-regret firms will surely produce more than their purely risk …
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investors, ambiguity aversion generates strong home bias in equity holdings, regardless of beliefs in the CAPM or risk aversion …. Results become stronger under regime-switching investment opportunities …
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are (1) the model can generate a high and volatile equity premium while a low and smooth risk-free rate, (2) agents … volatility clusterng and persistence; and (3) Bayesian learning itself is unable to generate a significant and positive risk … premium once time variation in investment opportunities is accounted for; in most cases, Bayesian learning lowers the …
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