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Recent theoretical work in the economics of climate change has suggested that climate policy is highly sensitive to ‘fat-tailed’ risks of catastrophic outcomes (Weitzman, 2009b). Such risks are suggested to be an inevitable consequence of scientific uncertainty about the effects of increased...
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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 … hinges on firm-specific expectations of future loss recovery …
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with the Arrow/Romer approach to endogenous growth to analyze the interaction of risk, growth, and inequality, the latter …. Major results include that growth, inequality, and risk are positively related in our model, but we also identify a hump …–shaped relationship between welfare and risk, indicating a tradeoff relationship between risk–pooling and growth in the determination of …
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risk preferences. Here, we develop an analogous tool for choice under uncertainty – the ambiguity triangle – and show that … characterize this heterogeneity with finite-mixture estimates of a one-parameter extension of Expected Utility Theory wherein 48 …
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The paper reexamines the welfare economics of intergenerational risk. Risk and its resolution over time are modeled as … preferences to (i) disentangle aversion to intergenerational inequality from aversion to risk, (ii) exhibit a preference for early … resolution of risk, (iii) show different discounting formulas depending on the magnitude of risk and on the timing of its …
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-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 …
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We define a class of risk-taking-neutral (RTN) background risks. These background risks have the property that they … will not alter decisions made with respect to another risk, for individuals with HARA utility. If we wish to compare a … decision made with and without some exogenous background risk, it is often easier to compare the decision made to one made with …
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assumption of (intertemporal) risk neutrality reduces the growth effect in social discounting and significantly amplifies the … importance of risk and correlation. Second, debate and models largely overlook the difference in attitude with respect to risk … and with respect to non-risk uncertainty. The paper derives the resulting changes of the risk-free and the stochastic …
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-form expressions of welfare loss from shocks and epistemological uncertainty identify the interaction of (intertemporal) risk attitude …
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How does risk affect saving? Empirical work typically examines the effects of detectible differences in risk within the … data. How these differences affect saving in theoretical models depends on the metric one uses for risk. For labor …-income risk, second-degree increases in risk require prudence to induce increased saving demand. However, prudence is not …
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