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Italian banks, this study presents a cross-sectional analysis of the maturity of loans to firms and shows a first evidence … relevant in the determination of loan maturity. …
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Social capital has emerged as a key concept on the social sciences in general and political science/public policy in particular over the last two decades or so, because, by facilitating collective action among the actors, it leads to increased levels of performance in several public policy areas...
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This paper provides a review and critical discussion of indicators, which attempt to combine the measurement of … (GS) have merely focused on the capacity to provide utility in the future, but have not included the measurement of … failed to account for sustainability in their measurement of current well-being. The paper then critically reviews the Index …
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approach as its measurement framework and recommended that all public bodies use the framework to “agree priorities, set …: Final Recommendations of the Equalities Review Steering Group on Measurement (CASEpaper 121), were prepared as background … papers to assist in the development of the measurement framework for the Equalities Review. It discusses the challenges in …
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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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Building on previous studies on perceptions of inequality, welfare and risk we investigate the structure of individuals …' rankings of uncertain prospects in terms of risk and their relationship to individual preferences. We examine three interlinked … propositions that are fundamental to the standard economic approach to risk: (i) that rankings by risk are simply the reverse of …
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recreational risk-taking). In addition, perceived costs and benefits mediated the relations between personality and risk-taking in … the five domains (social, ethical, gambling, recreational and investment risk-taking). Evidence for a mechanism that …
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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 …
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To what extent does economic analysis of climate change depend on low-probability, high-impact events? This question has received a great deal of attention lately, with the contention increasingly made that climate damage could be so large that societal willingness to pay to avoid extreme...
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Orderings of income distribution in terms of inequality should be closely related to orderings in terms of risk. Using …' distributional perceptions. We show that in terms of both inequality and risk individuals consistently reject one of the standard … axioms of distributional comparison. Moreover, there are significant differences in the 'maps' of inequality and risk …
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