Common sense supports prevention policies aimed at improving survival prospects among the population. It is also widely …-lived individuals. This paper re-examines the compatibility of those two concerns: prevention against early death and compensation for … early death. We show that, under mild conditions, no social ordering on allocations can satisfy a concern for prevention and …

/or (4) develop a psychological harassment prevention process. The paper argues managers may effectively combat psychological …

We develop a model where consumers do not have ex-ante private information on their risk but can decide to acquire such …. Welfare costs caused by the lack of coverage against the risk to be a high risk are analyzed. The case of genetic testing …

their agri-food products from a wider range of suppliers), while geographical concentration increases at the intensive … food alerts at the EU border that had never been exploited before. After coding it into HS8 categories, we regress the … incidence of food alerts by product on determinants including exporter dummies as well as HS8 product dummies. Coefficients on …

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 …

-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 … of the paper is the use of an ex ante food vulnerability estimate. Vulnerability is defined as the probability of falling …

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 …

Information and Risk in the Medieval Doctrine of Usury during the Thirteenth Century …