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Three is a crowd : using reciprocity to explain involvement in ongoing disputes
Rudkevich, Gennady - In: Peace economics, peace science and public policy 27 (2021) 3, pp. 341-368
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Merchants of Doubt : Corporate Political Influence When Expert Credibility is Uncertain
Chiroleu-Assouline, Mireille - 2016
A key role of science-based non-governmental organizations (NGOs) is to communicate scientific knowledge to policymakers. However, recent evidence has emerged showing that industry-backed groups often attempt to undermine the credibility of such NGOs and weaken their ability to influence policy....
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Legal Uncertainty as a Welfare Enhancing Screen
Lang, Matthias - 2016
Consider legal uncertainty as uncertainty about the legality of a specific action. In particular, suppose that the threshold of legality is uncertain. I show that this legal uncertainty raises welfare. Legal uncertainty changes deterrence in opposite directions. The probability of conviction...
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Climate Policies Under Climate Model Uncertainty : Max-Min and Min-Max Regret
Rezai, Armon - 2017
Temperature responses and optimal climate policies depend crucially on the choice of a particular climate model. To illustrate, the temperature responses to given emission reduction paths implied by the climate modules of the well-known integrated assessments models DICE, FUND and PAGE are...
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Optimal Conservatism and Collective Monetary Policymaking Under Uncertainty
Hefeker, Carsten - 2014
We study how the optimal degree of conservatism relates to decision-making procedures in a Monetary Policy Committee (MPC). In our framework, central bank conservatism is required to attenuate the volatility of monetary decisions generated by the presence of uncertainty about the committee...
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Information, Uncertainty, and Subjective Entitlements in Bargaining
Karagözoğlu, Emin - 2010
More often than not production processes are the joint endeavor of people having different abilities and productivities. Such production processes and the associated surplus production are often not fully transparent in the sense that the relative contributions of involved agents are blurred;...
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Uncertainty and Economic Activity
Cesa-Bianchi, Ambrogio - 2014
The 2007-2008 global financial crisis and the subsequent anemic recovery have rekindled academic interest in quantifying the impact of uncertainty on macroeconomic dynamics based on the premise that uncertainty causes economic activity to slow down and contract. In this paper, we study the...
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International Environmental Agreements with Uncertainty, Learning and Risk Aversion
Finus, Michael - 2014
the threshold the opposite is true. Moreover, in a world without full learning (i.e. partial and no learning), risk … role of learning and risk aversion. It bridges two strands of literature: one focused on the role learning for the success … of IEA formation when countries are risk neutral and another that explores the implications of uncertainty and risk …
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Export Decision Under Risk
de Sousa, José; Disdier, Anne-Célia; Gaigne, Carl - 2021
regularities by developing a new firmbased trade model wherein managers are risk averse. Higher volatility induces the reallocation …
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Does Capital Tax Uncertainty Delay Irreversible Risky Investment?
Niemann, Rainer; Sureth-Sloane, Caren - 2021
risk neutral investors are sensitive with respect to capital tax risk and may react in a surprising manner to a newly …, high capital tax risk delays high-risk innovative investment projects. To reduce unintended consequences of uncertain tax …
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