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Joseph Stiglitz (1970), 'Increasing Risk: I. A Definition', Journal of Economic Theory, 2 (3), September, 225-43 -- 5. Paul A …), 'First Order Versus Second Order Risk Aversion', Journal of Economic Theory, 51 (1), June, 111-25 -- 31. Matthew Rabin (2000 …), 'Risk Aversion and Expected-Utility Theory, A Calibration Theorem' Econometrica, 68 (5), September, 1281-92 -- 32. Menahem E …
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We study the timing-of-extraction problem facing a decentralized mine owner when extraction entails environmental damage. As expected, when the environmental damage from mining is known, the socially optimal timing will depend on the magnitude of the damage relative to these costs in the rest of...
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This paper is concerned with the determination of the optimal time horizon for the cake-eating problem under uncertainty. It is shown that if the uncertain exhaustible resource stock is a discrete random variable admitting at most a finite number of values, the optimal planning horizon is...
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One of Keynes' core issues in his liquidity preference theory is how fundamental uncertainty affects the propensity to …
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Frank H. Knight's classic, Risk, Uncertainty and Profit, became a standard textbook and reference for students at the … editions by the LSE as well as for three foreign language editions. These prefaces both reflect the living legacy of Risk …, Uncertainty and Profit in the teaching of economics as well as summarizing the changes in his views on economic method, theory and …
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's composite preferences for risk tolerance, ambiguity aversion and optimism. Investors rationalize (IR)rational expected utilities …
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