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This paper presents a first model integrating the relation between biodiversity loss and zoonose pandemic risks in a general equilibrium dynamic economic set-up. The occurrence of pandemics is modeled as Poissonian leaps in economic variables. The planner can intervene in the economic and...
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This paper introduces dynamics in the R&D to innovation and innovation to productivity relationships, which have mostly been estimated on cross-sectional data. It considers four nonlinear dynamic simultaneous equations models that include individual effects and idiosyncratic errors correlated...
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A dynamic discrete choice model is set up to estimate the effects of grade retention in high school, both in the short- (end-of-year evaluation) and long-run (drop-out and delay). In contrast to regression discontinuity designs, this approach captures treatment heterogeneity and controls for...
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Environmental managers face substantial uncertainty when deciding on management actions. To reduce this uncertainty … on the management cost, the assumed value of a good state and on the level of uncertainty regarding the ecological state …
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The main aim of this paper is to assess whether there is a statistically significant environmental impact of cities within European countries. Second, starting from the estimated environmental impact of cities within European countries, the paper investigates whether cross-country variation can...
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circulation model. It also features Epstein-Zin utility and uncertainty about climate sensitivity that resolves after some time …
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uncertainty of a combined forecast should be interpreted as that of a typical forecaster randomly drawn from the pool. With a … standard factor decomposition of a panel of forecasts, we show that the uncertainty of a typical forecaster can be expressed as … some previously used measures significantly underestimate the conceptually correct benchmark forecast uncertainty. …
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In this paper, we conduct an empirical study of how uncertainty alters fertility behavior. The precautionary motive for … saving predicts that an increase in income uncertainty increases saving by reducing both consumption and fertility. We … examine this prediction using a new measure of economic uncertainty, the World Uncertainty Index and focus on data from 126 …
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We assess the feasibility, optimality, and policy implications of Environmental, Social, and Corporate Governance (ESG)-linked or “green” lending in a credit market where banks incorporate such non-financial data in credit allocation decisions. We identify an asymmetric information problem:...
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The paper reexamines the welfare economics of intergenerational risk. Risk and its resolution over time are modeled as a decision tree: in each period, the consumption of the current one-period living generation is to be traded-off against uncertain benefits of future generations; as time...
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