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The socioeconomic impact of pollution naturally comes with uncertainty due to, e.g., current new technological developments in emissions' abatement or demographic changes. On top of that, the trend of the future costs of the environmental damage is unknown: Will global warming dominate or...
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Heterogeneous beliefs among market participants can lead to questionable speculative trading that goes beyond any risk … pricing for ambiguous contracts, without compromising legitimate risk-hedging activities. While Arrow-Debreu equilibria …
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This study aims to verify if there is a negative relation between the investment of Brazilian companies and the …
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-levering procedure is around for the case of risk-free debt. The procedure for risky debt is much less clear even under very simplifying …
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payments subject to default risk. We use a discrete risk-neutral present value model with expected payments for risk …-neutral investors and risk-free spot rates for the valuation. The expected payments include the potentiality of default by weighting … promised payments the risk-neutral default probabilities. The required risk-neutral default probabilities are derived from …
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The authors show that there is a negative relationship between economic policy uncertainty (EPU) and firm overinvestment using Korean data from 2007 to 2016. Since Jensen (1986) shows that a firm's free cash flow is an important factor of overinvestment, the authors examine how free cash flow...
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firms under certainty. This paper extends the theory by further investigating the effects of regret-aversion on production …. We compare the optimal output levels of regret-averse firms with purely risk- averse firms under uncertainty and firms … under certainty. We first show that the linear-regret firms will surely produce more than their purely risk …
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This study introduces a novel index based on expectations concordance for explaining stock-price volatility when novel events that are each somewhat unique cause unforeseeable change and Knightian uncertainty in the process driving outcomes. Expectations concordance measures the degree to which...
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Recent theoretical developments in economics distinguish between risk and ambiguity (Knightian uncertainty). Using …
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