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with ambiguity about both volatility and drift. Corresponding extensions of some basic results in asset pricing theory are …
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This paper looks at the insurance demand of a firm's directors and officers using a sample of Canadian corporations (excluding firms from the Financial services and Mining sectors) from 1993-1999. More to the point, we study the demand for director's and officer's insurance. Our results suggest...
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officers. To achieve this goal, we examine whether corporations whose corporate managers' wealth is protected under a directors …
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This paper provides a revised version of the original Domain-Specific Risk-Taking (DOSPERT) scale developed by Weber, Blais, and Betz (2002) that is shorter and applicable to a broader range of ages, cultures, and educational levels. It also provides a French translation of the revised scale....
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crises and economic recessions. I propose a brief history of the 2008 crisis and insist on the loss of confidence within the … confidence: the failure of the Federal Reserve Board to abide by its mission; the ill-advised political interventions in mortgage … confidence and move out of a bad and stable economic equilibrium. Considering data on gross job creation and loss in the US …
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-period framework, and demonstrate that the goal level set for period 1, together with success or failure, can affect the self-confidence …
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financial crisis and economic recession. I consider a brief history of the crisis and insist on the loss of confidence within … the banking and financial sector, which propagated later to the real sector. I discuss ways to rebuild confidence and move …
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'influence des construits clés relatifs à la théorie de l'agence, la théorie des coûts de transaction et la théorie de la dépendence …
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This paper reports the results of a study of three successive IT outsourcing contracts at British Petroleum (BP). We offer an operational definition of IT outsourcing risk and use it to assess the risk exposure associated with each contract. We then examine how the management at BP dealt with...
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This document takes stock from several studies on outsourcing risk. A definition of risk is offered and illustration from many case studies is used to show how risk can be managed. Results show that an active risk management approach can reduce risk exposure subtantially while enabling the...
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