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This Article addresses puzzles relating to the allocation of grandfathering rights. First, when a government wishes to distribute grandfathering rights to societal actors who currently engage in a behavior that will soon be restricted, the societal actors may engage in inefficient behavior to...
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This paper focuses on the determinants of aggregate investment spending in the UK for the industrial and commercial companies (ICC) sector. It complements recent work by Cuthbertson and Gasparro, who study an augmented Tobin's q model of investment in the manufacturing sector. Important focal...
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This paper integrates the decision making of a firm facing production uncertainty into the theory of aggregate supply … presence of uncertainty reduces the aggregate supply, whether producers are risk neutral or risk averse. Second, given the … assumption of decreasing absolute risk aversion an increase in interest rate reduces the aggregate supply, and hence the presence …
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Much research has focused on emission-based instruments for pollution control, but indirect approaches that control input use or production technologies are often used. This article derives a simple rule for evaluating the relative efficiency of input-use taxes and standards in the presence of...
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ensure the following: (i) equality among the risk-adjusted rates of return and (ii) equilibrium in the output market. The … also conducted. These assess the effects of risk on growth and the impact of fiscal policy on both the mean growth rate and …
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We investigate how exchange-rate uncertainty affects the foreign direct investment decision of a risk … exchange risk, by inducing the MNF to open plants in both markets, may prevent entry by the local competitor …
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We explore Knightian model uncertainty as an explanation for the observed excess persistence and attenuation in estimated interest-rate reaction functions for the United States, relative to what optimal feedback rules would suggest. Two types of uncertainty are identified: (i) unstructured model...
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This study empirically examines the role of risk sharing between taxable investors and the government on the relation … weaker or even reverses when (i) a firm’s systematic risk is high, (ii) the market risk premium is high, or (iii) the risk … around substantive increases and decreases in the risk parameters. We corroborate our findings in a single country setting …
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any given initial expected risk level, optimal risk-taking decisions involving uncertainty in a multi-period world should …
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Fragmented risk is a theme that runs throughout many of the issues and controversies in insurance law, but one that has … received insufficient attention. Insurance reflects a tension between bundling and fragmenting risk. One of the great virtues … ordinary course of business under the CGL policy. Policyholders benefit from bundling risk because coverage is easier to …
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