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We study a commons problem under uncertainty, where individual actions affect the risk of a future damage event. We … show that for risk-averse agents, an extra risk on the amount of the damage induces more precautionary actions in Nash … equilibrium. Similarly, for prudent agents an extra risk in all states of the world induces more precautionary actions in Nash …
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different types of disasters, the effect of changing disaster risk so far has largely been neglected. In this paper we study the … effect of hurricane risk on individual self-reported life satisfaction. In order to do so we combine geo-referenced survey … we construct time-varying indicators of hurricane risk on the zip-code-level for the period of 2010 to 2018, based on …
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in the country in order to measure the impact of climate change on the dengue risk in Brazil, and also examine the public … risk, a comparative case study research will be used, based on the comparison of cities that suffered from specific climate … conditions that increased the risk of dengue with cities whose climatic conditions stayed the same. The counterfactual will be …
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Economic measures are advanced to environmental problems in EU nations. The economic approach imposes a constant economic load on activities negatively affecting the environment, and it is also a technique for giving a constant profit for activities conserving the environment. The whole society...
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What will come first - non-acceptable global warming or extinction of oil reserves? Both processes can bring substantial costs to the mankind, but their order has important economic implications. The answer to this question will either lower oil price in the long run or will lead to its further...
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