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, whereas the prospects of solar photovoltaics (PV) are highly contingent on the ambitiousness of climate policy. Bioenergy is …
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We study the role of alternative intertemporal preference representations in a model of economic growth, stock pollutant and endogenous risk of catastrophic collapse. We contrast the traditional "discounted utility" model, which assumes risk neutrality with respect to intertemporal utility, with...
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This article uses the European Patent Office Worldwide Patent Statistical Database to examine the geographic distribution and global diffusion of inventions in thirteen climate-mitigation technologies since 1978. The data suggest that until 1990 innovation was driven mostly by energy prices....
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know whether the decision maker has wrong beliefs and whether it matters or not, that it makes it possible to better model …
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update their beliefs about the probability of being audited, both before and after audits are definitely withdrawn. We find … that when individuals have initially experienced systematic audits, they decrease both their beliefs and their … irregular, they maintain high beliefs about the probability of being audited and continue cooperating long after audits have …
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This article studies the joint determination of beliefs about the economic impact of immigration and immigration policy … results stress the important role of the endogenous determination of beliefs, which appears as a major determinant of policy … preferences. Moreover, media exposure appears as a key determinant of beliefs: individuals who spend more time to get informed on …
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In this contribution, we investigate the effects of observation-only and observation with feedback from a third-party, in a one-shot dictator game (DG). In addition to a baseline condition (DG), a third-party anonymous subject is introduced who either silently observes or observes and gives...
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different beliefs about how policy choices will map into future economic outcomes. We show that when the incumbent party can …-serving behavior by political parties, but rather stems from their differing beliefs about the consequences of their actions. …
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given set of beliefs and remains optimal when these beliefs are changed, then the set of optimal allocations of the two … economies must actually coincide. We identify equivalence classes of beliefs giving rise to the same set of Pareto optimal …
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players realize that their own actions modify their opponent's beliefs and actions, they might play certain actions to this … their beliefs in order to take account of the reaction of their opponents to their own action. Second, we examine if players …
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