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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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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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controlled by online second-hand dealers on perceived risk. While the literature review suggests using the signaling theory …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 …
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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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