shows that macroeconomic risk acts as an important deterrent to investments …

-probability extreme events on environmental policy in a continuous-time real options model with “tail risk”. In a nutshell, our results … indicate the importance of tail risk and call for foresighted pre-emptive climate policies …

We show that the impact of government bailouts (liquidity injections) on a representative bank's risk taking depends on … the level of systematic risk of its loans portfolio. In a model where bank's output follows a geometric Brownian motion … take on more risk depending on the level of systematic risk; if systematic risk is high (low), a more generous bailout …

effects (accelerated investment due to higher wealth tax rates) are more likely for low interest rates and for high-risk … indicate that wealth taxes are particularly harmful for specific classes of investments, for example low-risk investments …

In a recent paper, Alipranti et al. (2014, Price vs. quantity competition in a vertically related market, Economics … Letters, 124: 122-126) show that in a vertically related market Cournot competition yields higher social welfare compared to … Bertrand competition if the upstream firm subsidises the quantity setting downstream firm's production via negative wholesale …

This paper presents a simple model of airline schedule competition that circumvents the complexities of the spatial … approach used in earlier papers. Consumers choose between two duopoly carriers, each of which has evenly spaced flights, by …

-Nash equilibria in a duopoly. Comparing equilibrium prices to the prices set by a multiproduct monopolist, we show that competition … drives prices up and may lead to price dispersion. Competition reduces total surplus in the short run but provides higher …

We investigate how individual risk preferences affect the likelihood of selecting the more able contestant within a two …-player Tullock contest. Our theoretical model yields two main predictions: First, an increase in the risk aversion of a player … less able but less risk averse contestant can achieve an equal or even higher probability of winning than a more able but …

empirically show two main findings: first, risk-taking is positively related to the length of tax loss periods because the loss … rules shift some risk to the government; and second, the tax rate has a positive effect on risk-taking for firms that expect …