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Biodiversity prospecting over time and under uncertainty : a theory of sorts

Batabyal, Amitrajeet A.; Nijkamp, Peter - 2013

Biodiversity prospecting refers to the exploration of the commercial value of genetic and biochemical resources. In this chapter, we study a drug producing pharmaceutical firm (PF) that searches for potentially useful chemicals made by wild organisms in a conservation area. This PF is able to...

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Almost expectation and excess dependence notions

Denuit, Michel; Huang, Rachel J.; Tzeng, Larry Y. - In: Theory and decision : an international journal for … 79 (2015) 3, pp. 375-401

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Managing pesticide risks for non-target ecosystems with pesticide risk indicators : a multicriteria approach

Travisi, Chiara Maria; Nijkamp, Peter; Vighi, Marco; … - 2004

In the search for effective pesticide risk management tools, the design of pesticide risk indicators is nowadays … recently developed pesticide risk indices and test their potential for management purposes. A pilot approach is proposed, which … explores pesticide worst-case hazard scenarios at different space-time scales by means of a set of 5 ecotoxicological risk …

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Benchmark values for higher order coefficients of relative risk aversion

Denuit, Michel; Rey, Béatrice - In: Theory and decision : an international journal for … 76 (2014) 1, pp. 81-94

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Tail mutual exclusivity and tail-var lower bounds

Cheung, Ka Chun; Denuit, Michel; Dhaene, Jan - 2015

In this paper, we extend the concept of mutual exclusivity proposed by Dhaene and Denuit (1999) to its tail counterpart and baptise this new dependency structure as tail mutual exclusivity. Probability levels are first specified for each component of the random vector. Under this dependency...

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Risk aversion, prudence, and asset allocation : a review and some new developments

Denuit, Michel; Eeckhoudt, Louis R. - In: Theory and decision : an international journal for … 80 (2016) 2, pp. 227-243

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Optimal resource management in the presence of a deleterious alien species

Batabyal, Amitrajeet A.; Nijkamp, Peter - 2007

Various plants and resources such as orchards are vulnerable to the detrimental effects of successful invasions by alien animal or plant species. To outline an appropriate policy response, we first use renewal theory to construct a stochastic model of optimal orchard management in the presence...

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