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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 consider the problem of optimal risk sharing of some given total risk between two economic agents characterized by … law-invariant monetary utility functions or equivalently, law-invariant risk measures. We first prove existence of an … optimal risk sharing allocation which is in addition increasing in terms of the total risk. We next provide an explicit …
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The theory of existence of equilibrium with short-selling is reconsidered under risk and ambiguity modelled by risk … of the risk adjusted sets of expectations overlap. This condition is necessary if agents are not risk neutral at extreme … compatible trades, with non negative expected value with respect to any risk adjusted prior, strictly positive for some agent and …
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Despite recent discoveries of embezzlement and excessive risk taking in subsidiary companies of several large French … disseminates the responsibilities. By the way, the directors are in a situation of dependence vis-à-vis a risk which they discover …
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In financial economics risk-return tradeoffs show how expected rates of return and consequently asset prices are altered …: (i) Present some of the recent literature that is concerned with the effect of long run risk on returns and prices. (ii …) Develop an analytical structure that reveals the long-run risk-return relationship in nonlinear continuous time Markov …
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Despite the influence of perceived risk on the decision to buy a second-hand product, very few studies address the … issue of risk reduction for a second-hand purchase. In this study, we focus on the influence of product or situational cues … controlled by online second-hand dealers on perceived risk. While the literature review suggests using the signaling theory …
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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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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 … rate risk, is more closely associated with comprehensive income volatility than either net income volatility or fair value …
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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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inducing people to increasingly take the risk of HIV-infection and hence causing a rise in HIV prevalence. We provide a simple … model to stress on the e ects of an increase in income risk in the incentives for protection. We test the prediction using a … Africa is lifted. Additional nding states that the risk taking of HIV-infection increases when the individuals are facing …
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