’s stand-alone value and a component of the synergies that would be realized by the merger involving his firm. We characterize …, hence transfers can be made contingent on the new information accruing after the merger. Second, we study the case of … identify necessary and sufficient conditions for the implementability of efficient merger rules. In the second case, we show …

are found. Over time, the underlying payoffs randomly change, i.e. display some “volatility”, which leads agents to react …-run invariant behavior and obtain the following conclusions: (a) Only if payoff volatility is not too high can the society sustain a … dense social network. (b) The social architecture endogenously responds to increased volatility by becoming more cohesive …

We study the impact of oil price shocks on U.S. stock market volatility. We derive three different structural oil shock … variables (i.e. aggregate demand, oil-supply, and oil-demand shocks) and relate them to stock market volatility, using bivariate … stock market volatility only with delay. This implies that innovations to the price of crude oil are not strictly exogenous …

international tourism are significant financial assets to the economies of SITEs, the time-varying volatility of international … tourist arrivals and their growth rate is analogous to the volatility (or dynamic risk) in financial returns. In this paper …, the volatility in the levels and growth rates of daily international tourist arrivals is investigated. …

). Exogenous uncertainty over the size of the negotiated amount of water is introduced to capture the fact that water availability …

. 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 …