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scale, both in terms of volume and visibility, requires a re-evaluation of standard risk management procedures. This report … provides managers with an invaluable risk-analysis grid specific to the food industry, which identifies the main risk factors … and undesirable outcomes associated with mega events. Once this is done, appropriate risk management strategies can be …
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Notwithstanding the domain of activities where they are conducted, projects often entail risks, and risk management has … been widely recognized as a success factor in project management. While several lists of risk factors have been proposed in … several domains, there exists no generic tool for helping the assessment of the risk level of a given project. This paper …
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This paper proposes a unified framework for measuring and managing longevity risk. Specifically, we develop a flexible … framework is essentially independent of the assumed underlying dynamics and the choice of method for risk neutralization and … relies only on the ability to simulate from the risk neutral process. We provide an application to derivatives on the …
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We analyze the contract-based relationship between a local community and a private operator in charge of a water utility. An important feature of the regulation model is the existence of water network losses that may reduce the operator's cost. We derive solutions to the optimal contract both...
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estimators considered by Hannan and Kavalieris (1984b) and Reinsel, Basu and Yap (1992). We present simulation evidence which …
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The recent financial crisis has led to a critical evaluation of the role that fair value accounting may have played in undermining the stability of the financial system. Reacting to the pressures of banking regulators and governments, standard-setters have brought forward additional guidance on...
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states of the world and time periods. We propose a characterization of the firm where variations in the market price of risk … costs. We propose a new role for financial risk management based on the idea that the use of financial derivatives may … controlling for the traditional variables explaining the need for financial risk management. Nous caractérisons une entreprise …
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financial relationships is not only to provide funds but also to offer insurance to a risk adverse entrepreneur through …
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implications on decisions based upon prediction of volatility, especially when dealing with tail prediction as in risk management …
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Value-at-Risk (VaR) has emerged as the standard tool for measuring and reporting financial market risk. Currently, more … than eighty commercial vendors offer enterprise or trading risk management systems which report VaR-like measures. Risk … managers are therefore often left with the daunting task of having to choose from this plethora of risk models. Accordingly …
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