This book provides coherent theoretical and empirical analysis of firms' investment and financing decisions. It … results confirm theoretical precedents. Some firms are indeed financially constrained, for fixed investment as well as for R … firms to adopt a 'wait and see' strategy which eventually reduces investment, especially for irreversible investment …

catastrophic in their consequences. Therefore, the elaboration of effective risk-management plans, aimed at formulating viable … management of environmental risks - environmental pollution risk and natural catastrophe risk in particular. It discusses the … issue of insurability of such risks, analyses the increasing risk of liability for environmental pollution and the …

catastrophe risk and to reducing the economic and insurance market disruption that often follows catastrophic events. …

One of the unforeseen consequences of the WTO agreements has been controversy over risk. This volume explores aspects … of risk with special reference to the WTO, where national instruments to reduce risk may conflict with international … trade rules. The book is divided into sections dealing with: accounting for risk in trade agreements; risk and the WTO …

This dataset contains indicators on the financial assets and liabilities of investment funds, insurance corporations …

This dataset contains indicators on the financial assets of investment funds, insurance corporations and pension funds …