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demand, the cost of abatement and the damage caused from pollution. Under these modes of uncertainty we derive sufficient …
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We welfare rank different types of second-best environmental policy. The focus is on the roles of uncertainty and … uncertainty is economic, the best recipe is to levy taxes (on pollution or output) and use the collected tax revenues to finance … public abatement. However, when environmental uncertainty is the dominant source of extrinsic uncertainty, Kyoto-like rules …
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We study the importance of uncertainty and public finance to the welfare ranking of three environmental policy … revenues finance public abatement. When the main source of uncertainty is economic, the most efficient recipe is to levy … pollution taxes and use the collected tax revenues to finance public abatement. However, when environmental uncertainty is the …
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We study the importance of uncertainty and public finance to the welfare ranking of three environmental policy … revenues finance public abatement. When the main source of uncertainty is economic, the most efficient recipe is to levy … pollution taxes and use the collected tax revenues to finance public abatement. However, when environmental uncertainty is the …
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Heterogeneous beliefs among market participants can lead to questionable speculative trading that goes beyond any risk-sharing motives. We demonstrate that such unwarranted betting behavior in market equilibrium can be mitigated by introducing nonlinear pricing for ambiguous contracts, without...
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The present paper considers a class of general equilibrium economics when the primitive uncertainty model features … uncertainty about continuous-time volatility. This requires a set of mutually singular priors, which do not share the same null … agents in the economy are heterogeneous in their preference for uncertainty. Each utility functional is a variational type …
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