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Globalizing knowledge economies foster conditions that intensify the role and value of organizational reputation risk … reputation risk. Having noted the ambivalence that surrounds ‘risk positions’, we present a re-definition of reputation risk that … encompasses the dynamics of contemporary risk and trust relationships. We explore the capacity of different trust forms to reduce …
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Relying on a Constant Relative Risk Aversion utility function, we use panel data for Argentina to compute risk …-adjusted income and poverty measures and to analyze their determinants. Taking risk into account increases poverty. The regression … analysis suggests that many household characteristics are correlated not only with the average income of the household over …
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This paper studies poverty as a dynamic phenomenon, motivated by the recurring economic crises that affect developing countries and the incidence of income fluctuations on household welfare. While the increasing availability of household panel data has been exploited in theoretical analysis and...
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The paper analyses the implications of landowners’ option values in land allocation and derives policy recommendations for payments for Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD). Given that REDD will not represent a permanent change in the cumulative flux of carbon...
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This article reports a study that tests whether the internal consistency of the standard gamble can be improved upon by incorporating loss weighting and probability transformation parameters in the standard gamble valuation procedure. Five alternatives to the standard EU formulation are...
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Necessary and sufficient conditions are derived for optimal saving in a stochastic neo-classical one-good world with discrete time. The usual technique of dynamic programming is replaced by classical variational and concavity arguments, modified to take account of conditions of measurability...
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It is known from the literature on uncertainty that in cases where individuals express a preference for a high win-probability bet over a bet with high winnings they nevertheless will bid more to obtain the bet with high winnings. We investigate whether a similar phenomenon applies in the...
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Many financial applications, such as risk analysis and derivatives pricing, depend on time scaling of risk. A common … is to examine time scaling of risk when returns follow a jump diffusion process. It is argued that a jump diffusion is … well-suited for the modeling of systemic risk, which is the raison d’etre of the Basel capital adequacy proposals. We …
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traditional approach is that measures the risk and return tradeoff in terms of mean and variance of final wealth. However, there …
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The most usual procedure when facing decisions in complex settings consists in consulting experts, aggregating the information they provide, and deciding on the basis of this aggregated information. We argue that such a procedure entails a substantial loss, insofar as it precludes the...
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