This study investigates the influence of background diversity of bank board members on performance and risk. Using data … associated with performance except when it relates to ethnicity. It not only reduces performance per se but also increases risk …. Female presence and professional diversity reduce risk but nationality and ethnicity diversities are associated with higher …

-agricultural sector is considered as a risk-mitigating strategy by rural Pakistani households. This issue has already been addressed but … whether ex ante engagement in the non-agricultural sector is partly motivated by a desire to mitigate risk. The main feature …

has a specific behaviour with respect to the sanitary risk. Moreover, by taking the results of different works that …

-to-implement procedure could be adequately used. For that purpose, the subjects' degree of risk aversion is compared across three payment …

time upside and downside risks. This paper offers a comparative analysis of concept risk measures, we focus on quantile … based risk measure (ES and VaR), spectral risk measure and distortion risk measure. After introducing each measure, we … investigate their interest and limit. Knowing that quantile based risk measure cannot capture correctly the risk aversion of risk …

This chapter of a collective book aims at presenting the basics of decision making under risk. We first define notions … of risk and increasing risk and recall definitions and classifications (that are valid independently of any … representation) of behavior under risk. We then review the classical model of expected utility due to von Neumann and Morgenstern …

each source's effect of uncertainty on human capital investment. We demonstrate that investment in education may be …

Certain areas related to the topics under discussion here lie outside my field; for instance the evaluation of risk … powers to analyse the risk decision-making process over some years now. …