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Des études empiriques montrent que dans les pays en voie de développement des chocs sanitaires peuvent avoir des effets sévères sur le revenu des ménages. Peu d’analyses ont jusqu’à présent analysé l’impact de la mortalité. La différence majeure entre une période de maladie et...
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This paper addresses the issue of the positive observed relationship be- tween GDP and HIV prevalence in Sub-Saharan Africa. We examine the role of the volatility of GDP per capita in lowering the incentives to invest in self-protection and, empirically, in the spread of the epidemic. Using a...
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and Stiglitz 'model. In this case, we show that the optimal contract exhibits a deductible for the high health risk type … low health risk type. …
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We study imperfect competition between insurers in a multiple-risk environment. In the absence of asymmetric …
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This article focuses on the volatility of crude oil futures prices on the New York Mercantile Exchange. It aims at examining whether this market creates excess volatility, which would not be observed in the absence of such a market. In order to reach this objective, price fluctuations are...
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françaises durant la période 2005-2006 et testons le « risk-relevance » de ces trois mesures. Nous démontrons que la volatilité … performance and risk very differently, especially for companies with significant exposure to changes in fair values of financial … 2005 to 2006, and test the risk-relevance of these different volatility measures. We find that for the average bank, the …
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This article applies a two-step conditional Bayesian approach to hedge fund risk. First, a mixture or-two normal …
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We create an analytical structure that reveals the long-run risk-return relationship for nonlinear continuous … eigenfunction term. The eigenvalue encodes the risk adjustment, the martingale alters the probability measure to capture long … components of cash flows induce changes in the corresponding eigenvalues and eigenfunctions, we reveal a long-run risk …
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outlook for the risk evaluation in investment choice. Measurement tools form the main development in investment literature …
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