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activities and real risk management activities distribute cashflows over states of nature and time periods, leading to a … less to changes in market prices of risks to attain the new value maximizing portfolio of real activities. Financial risk …. Empirically, we show that a firm's reactiveness to variations in risk prices is linked to its hedging activities. We also argue …
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8% in nominal terms, whereas the real rate should be 6%. Should be calculated without a risk premium. Should apply to …
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While in 1996, 12 OECD countries offered R&D tax incentives, in 2008 this number increased to 21. Most countries have opted for level-based instead of incremental R&D tax incentives. This paper takes a critical look at how the effectiveness of R&D tax incentives has been assessed in recent...
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The purpose of this paper is to analyse whether the government subsidy that has been paid to workers of a large Canadian firm in the context of a work sharing program has been a profitable operation for the government. We find that it has not been financially viable for the provincial government...
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It is now well recognized that all types of regulation are imposing costs on our society. The studies which have tried to evaluate these costs are numerous and their methologies are diversified. This paper is proposing a critical analysis of these methodologies and of the results obtained by...
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Similarly to a previous study, but with a data set more representative of the workers that have gained from the work sharing program, the purpose of this paper is to analyse whether the government subsidy that has been paid to workers of a large Canadian firm in the context of a work sharing...
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The Enviroclub initiative was developed by three federal government agenciesCanada Economic Development for Quebec Regions, Environment Canada and the National Research Council Canadaand launched in 2001 to assist small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in improving their profitability and...
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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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