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. What additional economic cost of mitigation measures will this delay imply? At the same time, the uncertainty surrounding … this uncertainty cost? Is there a hedging strategy that decision makers can adopt to cope with delayed action and uncertain … computing the optimal abatement strategy in the presence of uncertainty about a global stabilisation target (which will be …
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baseline mortality risk, and thus operates as the “dead anyway” effect. We suggest, however, that ambiguity aversion should …
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examines the role of uncertainty (on the efficiency gains) in this tradeoff. Common wisdom is that the antitrust authorities … are uncertain would not be theoretically founded. Indeed, the attitude towards uncertainty depends on the curvature of the … that competition authorities should welcome the risk for a given expectation of efficiency gains. Implications for …
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Climate physics predicts that the intensity of natural disasters will increase in the future due to climate change. We present a stochastic model of a growing economy where natural disasters are multiple and random, with damages driven by the economy’s polluting activity. We provide a...
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According to the Framework Convention on Climate Change, global collective action is needed to stabilize “greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that would prevent dangerous [our emphasis] anthropogenic interference with the climate system.” The Framework Convention thus...
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This paper finds a link between the sharp drop in U.S. manufacturing employment beginning in 2001 and a change in U.S. trade policy that eliminated potential tariff increases on Chinese imports. Industries where the threat of tariff hikes declines the most experience more severe employment...
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of IEA formation when countries are risk neutral and another that explores the implications of uncertainty and risk …This paper analyses the formation of international environmental agreements (IEAs) under uncertainty, focusing on the … role of learning and risk aversion. It bridges two strands of literature: one focused on the role learning for the success …
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, sustaining only modest cuts in emissions. These results are unaffected by uncertainty about the impact of catastrophe. By … contrast, uncertainty about the catastrophic threshold typically causes coordination to collapse. Whether the probability …
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This paper deals with three aspects of spectacular oil price episodes such as the one witnessed in 2008. First, the concept of temporary explosiveness is proposed as an empirical method for capturing this type of behavior. The application of a recently proposed recursive unit root test shows...
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their own risk preferences. The observed allocations are consistent with four different views of justice under uncertainty. … some recipients are exposed to uncertainty. Although, under certainty almost all uninvolved participants distribute … resources equally, they exhibit remarkable heterogeneity in just allocations under uncertainty. Moreover, uninvolved …
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