Results indicate that our ability to foresee climate change impacts is not only limited by the aleatory uncertainty of climate change projections; avoidable uncertainty in basic asset data can outweigh aleatory uncertainty by an order of magnitude.
The introduction of taxes and transfers does not introduce any new basic asset so that the payoff space is the same as in the no-tax economy.
Volatility risk plays an important role in the management of portfolios of derivative assets as well as portfolios of basic assets.
As a proxy for household wealth, we included an index of basic assets and amenities.
The social position of the respondent was measured by her education level (no formal education, primary, secondary, or higher education), literacy level (illiterate, partly literate, fully literate), her occupation, and the household's possession of basic assets and amenities.
Structured products consist of packaging basic assets such as stocks, bonds, and currencies together with some derivatives.
As long as Chinese Communists allow wider freedoms in Hong Kong than in the mainland, the area should continue to take advantage of its basic assets, including the world's third-largest container port, an excellent airport and a highly skilled entrepreneurial population.
As basic assets, food prices, energy prices and national currencies swing in price, wealth and power are violently moved out of some hands and into others.
The theory of POS [ 17, 21, 22] suggests that the personality features assessed by this construct represent basic assets that exert fundamental biological functions.
