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Does fractionalization change over (short periods of) time? If so, are there any substantial implications for economic performance? To answer such questions, we construct a new panel data set with measures of fractionalization for 26 former communist countries covering the period from 1989 to...
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associated with a stronger relationship between premiums and local disaster risk: A one standard-deviation increase in disaster …-through of reinsurance costs. Third, we project that if the reinsurance shock persists, growing disaster risk will lead climate … risk is associated with $500 higher premiums in 2023, up from $300 in 2018. Second, using the rapid rise in reinsurance …
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distribution, with associated costs for weather risk management and risk-averse decision-makers. These costs result purely from the …
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The impact of exposure to a major unanticipated natural disaster on the evolution of survivors' attitudes toward risk … assume greater financial risk in the short-term while rebuilding their lives after the disaster … to take on risk relative to those not directly exposed to the tsunami. These differences are short-lived: starting a year …
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The risk of losses of income and productive means due to adverse weather can differ significantly among farmers sharing … coffee farmers in Costa Rica. As expected, we find high levels of risk aversion, but even using that as a baseline, we … further find that farmers behave even more cautiously when the setting is characterized by unknown or ambiguous risk (i …
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Arthur Richs zweibaendiges Meisterwerk Wirtschaftsethik (1984/1990) wird im Kontext der internationalen Entwicklung der Wirtschaftsethik seit den achtziger Jahren gewuerdigt. Nach einer kurzen UEbersicht der internationalen Entwicklung werden acht besonders wichtige Aspekte von Richs Werk fuer...
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Islamic Banking ist in aller Munde. Waehrend sich OEkonomen mit den finanztechnischen und Juristen mit den religioes-rechtlichen Eigenheiten des islamischen Finanzmarktes auseinander setzen, soll Islamic Banking hier aus wirtschaftsethischer Perspektive betrachtet werden. Anhand empirischer...
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Eine Oekonomie des Glaubens zu schreiben ist gewagt, weil sie das, was die Religion ausmacht, zu verfehlen droht. Aber wenn sich herausstellen koennte, dass sie mehr umfasste als eine Applikation des (mundanen) oekonomischen Denkens, und dennoch eine Logik zeigte, waere etwas gewonnen: Wir...
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