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This paper examines how yhe Workers' Compensation (WC) and the Unemployment Insurance (UI) programs interact to influence the duration of claims due to workplace accidents. We use longitudinal WC administrative micro-data on more than 30,000 workers in the Quebec construction industry for the...
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This report defines a framework to evaluate and collect data on incidents and accidents occurring in hospitals and to create database at local and national level. Our goals are: 1) to provide a structure for thorough analysis within the hospitals that can be used with the already existing tools...
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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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related to environmental risk factors, organizational risk factors and use of precautionary principle are discussed. Ce …
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We elicit subjects' willingness to pay to reduce future risk. In our experiments, subjects are given a cash endowment … probability sessions, suggesting that this bias robustly persists in environments including both risk and future uncertainty, and …
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In this report, we first develop a simplified example that illustrates the importance of considering the option ``waiting to invest'' when valuing an investment. This is followed by a short description of other options that could be embedded in an investment opportunity. In order to stress the...
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The following project report is the first of a sequence which will focus on integrated risk management. This report … presents a conceptual model which goal is to define the concept of risk. This conceptual model integrates the definitions of … multiple domains having an interest in risk management. With the model, a terminology is proposed. This conceptual model is a …
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This document deals with business processes performed by two or more trade partners. Companies expect many benefits from the integration of such processes: cost reduction, better access to their customers and suppliers, and even more flexible types of interactions. However, the integration of...
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classical studies on voluntary contributions to public goods. The Nash equilibrium, under the assumption of risk neutrality …
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We examine whether risk, timing or mispricing hypotheses can explain the underperformance of private and public equity … issuers, in Canada, where both categories share several common characteristics. Adding an investment risk factor to the TFPM …
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