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the current principal prefers her future self to save more, she can increase current investments complementary to future … savings and decrease investments in the strategic substitutes, for example. To characterize the principalś choices they are … benefits from subsidizing investments in "green" capital (complementary to future savings) and tax investments in substitute …
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find a quarter of students violated the order. Yet, neither risk preference, altruism, nor preexisting health conditions …
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Experimental studies of the WTP-WTA gap avoid social trading by implementing an incentive compatible mechanism for each individual trader. We compare a traditional random price mechanism and a novel elicitation mechanism preserving social trading, without sacrificing mutual incentive...
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proposing a novel news media-based measure of climate change transition risk and show that when such risk is high, major …
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social context affected risk-taking behavior. Remotely, pairs take far fewer risks when the stakes are high than in the flesh …
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The standard literature on working time has modelled the decisions of firms in a deterministic framework in which firms can choose between employment and overtime (given mandated standard hours). Contrary to this approach, we consider the impact of uncertainty and real options on the decision of...
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degree of pessimism of the representative agent is the mean of the individual ones weighted by their index of absolute risk …
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In this paper we offer an analysis of the effects of uncertainty about future tax policy on irreversible investment. The main message of the paper is that investment is not much affected by the degreee of tax policy uncertainty. This is true regardless of whether random tax changes are...
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theoretically expected, these effects are concentrated among those firms that view their investments as largely irreversible …
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A large literature suggests that the expected equity risk premium is countercyclical. Using a variety of different … measures for this risk premium, we document that it also exhibits growth asymmetry, i.e. the risk premium rises sharply in … which agents cannot perfectly observe the state of current productivity, can generate the observed asymmetry in the risk …
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