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ascribed to the specific int eraction of consumption and portfolio choice in the determination of growth and welfare. …
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consumption choice as well as on economic growth is ambiguous as it affects the mean as well as the variance of disposable income …
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In this paper the impacts of income and consumption taxes are analyzed within a model of stochastic endogenous growth … with congestion. It is shown that the optimal amount of governmental input diminishes with uncertainty and that the optimal …
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uncertainty into Integrated Assessment Models (IAMs). Uncertainty is transformed into a risk-premium, damage-correction, region …. This risk premium quantifies what society would be willing to pay to insure against the uncertainty of the damages, and it …
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When economic agents decide their optimal environmental behavior, they have to take into account non continuos evolutionary trends and irreversible changes characterising environmental phenomena. Given the still non perfect biophysical and economic knowledge, decisions have to be taken in an...
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Maximising expected value is the classic doctrine in choice theory under empirical uncertainty, and a prominent … proposal in the emerging literature on normative uncertainty, i.e., uncertainty about the standard of evaluation. But how … difference lies in the perspective from which expectations are taken, or equivalently the amount of uncertainty packed into the …
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This paper combines the Aiyagari/Huggett–type standard incomplete markets model with the Arrow/Romer approach to growth to analyze feedback effects between growth and inequality, both endogenously determined in equilibrium. We derive conditions on existence/ nonexistence of balanced growth...
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oligopoly characterized by a homogeneous non-storable good, sticky prices and uncertainty. Our model nests the classical dynamic …-time limit of our model with no uncertainty and no risk-aversion. Focusing on the continuous-time limit of the infinite horizon … inversely related to the degrees of uncertainty and risk-aversion. However, the effect of uncertainty and risk …
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Der vorliegende Beitrag analysiert den Einfluß von aggregierten Produktivitätsschocks auf die intertemporale Entscheidung risikoaverser Agenten. Dabei stehen insbesondere die Auswirkungen auf das langfristige Wachstum der Ökonomie im Vordergrund der Betrachtungen. Es wird gezeigt, daß neben...
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This paper is concerned with occupational choice under risk, where agents care about their social status. It is motivated by recent developments in the 'New Economy', which indicate that status preferences possibly provide an explanation for the observed shift towards entrepreneurial...
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