Schlee, Edward. <br/><br/>
The Welfare Cost of Uncertainty in Policy Outcomes / 
Edward Schlee, V. Kerry Smith. 
 - Cambridge, Mass.  National Bureau of Economic Research  2016. 
 - 1 online resource:  illustrations (black and white); 
 - NBER working paper series  no. w22864 .
 - Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research)  no. w22864. .
<br/><br/> November 2016. 
<br/><br/> This paper proposes a simple index of the welfare significance of uncertainty in the public goods resulting as policy outcomes. Our measure is the ex ante compensation an individual would require to accept an uncertain level of service compared to receiving the expected value of the distribution of possible values for that service. Our compensation measure is a function of the coefficient of relative risk aversion, the variance in the measure of environmental service associated with policy and relevant for the individual, and a set of conventional parameters that describe the properties of nonmarket benefit measures under conditions of certainty. We would expect that the inverse virtual price elasticity of the for the environmental service  and the square of the coefficient of relative variation are the primary factors influencing the size of our compensation index. 
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