. These two markets comply with security concerns, as investments in peak power plants, in transmissions assets …

In this paper, we question whether there is a catch-up effect or announcement effecting Foreign Direct Investment (FDI … historical ties to Eastern Europe, and compare FDI in the transition countries in Central and Eastern Europe to FDI in other … regions - most notably to transition countries in Central Asia. In our analysis we try to impose as little structure as …

' investments. In their daily practice, stakeholders are translating their long-term strategies, a translation that is …

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 …

non-zero risk levels. Some contemporary European societies tolerate about one fatality per thousand year around industrial …

very differently from their external relations, depending on their place of residence, gender and age. Given the …

-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 …

We define a coherent risk measures as set-valued maps satisfying some axioms. We show that this definition is a … convenient extension of the real-valued risk measures introduced by Artzner, Delbaen, Eber and Heath (1998). We then discuss the … aggregation issue, i.e. the passage from valued random portofolio to valued measure of Risk. Necessary and sufficient conditions …