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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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and on the literature of imperfectly divisible consumption to argue that the general purpose of insurance is not a risk … transfer, but meeting a conditional need. In this way, insurance aligns the risk in one's ftnancial endowment with the risk in …I revisit the question of which motive underlies insurance demand. I draw on the literature of state-dependent utility …
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It is widely believed that an environmental tax (price regulation) and cap-and-trade (quantity regulation) are equally efficient in controlling pollution when there is no uncertainty. We show that this is not the case if some consumers (firms, local governments) are morally concerned about...
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standard approach that bases insurance demand on risk aversion with important implications for policy and research. … nature. The existence of such state-dependent indivisible consumption opportunities influences a person's risk attitudes. In … general, people are not risk averse anymore even if utility from divisible consumption is concave. I propose a definition of …
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methodological tools applied to estimate its economic cost usually account only for the direct impact on agricultural activity. In … to evaluate the systemic economic impacts of climate anomalies. The analysis is done for the Brazilian economy taking … of the agricultural sector with other sectors in the economic system and the regional interdependence among Brazilian …
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During the past few years, the plant nursery sector has drastically minimized its carbon footprint by using geothermal systems for heating rather than fossil fuel. This study aims to define the temperature range inside a greenhouse by means of a multiparametric analysis, with regard to several...
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