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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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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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We propose and implement a procedure to dynamically hedge climate change risk. We extract innovations from climate news … change hedge portfolios. We discipline the exercise by using third-party ESG scores of firms to model their climate risk … approaches to managing climate risk. …
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We use perturbation methods to derive a rule for the optimal risk-adjusted social cost of carbon (SCC) that … different aversions to risk and intertemporal fluctuations, convex damages, uncertainties in economic growth, atmospheric carbon …-run climate feedbacks. Our non-certainty-equivalent rule for the SCC incorporates precaution, risk insurance, and climate …
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This study examines the effect of smallholder farmers' access to a formal climate risk transfer mechanism on their risk …-purchaser farmers. Similarly, non-purchasers would have attained a significant reduction in their risk-aversion if they had taken up the … insurance product. We also find that WICI has a positive and statistically significant effect on farmers' real-life risk …
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consequences. Although risk preferences are likely important, existing research is silent about how social and risk preferences … not exposed to risk while beneficiaries' final earnings may be larger or smaller than the allocation itself, depending on … the realized state of the world. In a second experiment, risk affects the earnings of givers but not of beneficiaries. We …
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