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Complexity theory is designed to bring order out of a rough-and- tumble world, something close to every insurance professional's or actuary's heart. Whether applied in the laboratory or as part of a mathematical model, it can do wonderful things . But in the real world it's just what its name...
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In this paper a case study is presented to propose an alternative mechanism to include the impact of climate change into the hydropower projects’ feasibility valuation. We started from an independent engineer historical energy generation simulations; therefore, applying mixing unconditional...
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This paper models the stochastic behavior of large-scale terrorism using extreme value methods. We utilize a unique dataset composed of roughly 26,000 observations. These data provide a rich description of domestic and international terrorism between 1968 and 2006. Currently, a credible...
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Some recent papers by Dell et al. (2009) and Dell et al. (2012) (DJO) relating weather and economic outcomes, have … countries, leaving rich countries basically unaffected. In this study, we make use of a detailed weather and economic dataset …
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Linking indegenious knowledge of the community with modern techniques to mesure, analyse and reduce disaster … local wisdom, knowledge along with modern tools and techniques can give rid from disaster worst situation and can reduce … risk. To measure local knowledge and wisdom of the community statistically new model has developed through primary data …
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This paper uses cross-country data from 1965 to 2008 to examine how ethnic heterogeneity affects the probability of technological disasters. Estimation results showed that ethnic heterogeneity increased the probability of technological disasters.
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weather volatility and catastrophic risks are difficult to diversify using traditional insurance practices. To provide a map …
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into the future. It proposes sound principles of risk management that make sense in today's society generally, going beyond … them, it deals with different aspects of the theory of risk-bearing. I explain current responses to global change, focusing …
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The aim of this study is to analyse the price developments and to compare national macroeconomic policies in response to the consumer prices that started to soar in 2007 across the European Neighbourhood Policy countries, the other arcelona countries2, Russia, the Gulf Cooperation Council...
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of subsistence poor in the country increased to 14.6 percent in 2006 from 13.5 percent in 2003. The Social Weather …
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