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Determinants of Competitiveness of the Indian Auto Industry

Narayanan G., Badri; Vashisht, Pankaj - 2008

This paper analyses the determinants of competitiveness of auto industry in India, based on a field survey and a … manufacturers in India underlines various constraints faced by the sector, such as the shortage of skilled manpower along with poor …

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Demand-Supply Trends and Projections of Food in India

Mittal, Surabhi - 2008

The present paper presents the supply and demand trends of rice, wheat, total cereals, pulses, edible oil/oilseeds and … sugar/sugarcane. It provides the demand and supply projections for food items during 2011, 2021 and 2026. These projections … with projections provided by other scholars has also been made in the paper. Subsequently, the future supply-demand gap has …

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Fine tuning of health insurance regulation: Unhealthy consequences for an individual insurer

Schoder, Johannes; Sennhauser, Michèle; Zweifel, Peter - 2009

This paper sheds light on some unexpected consequences of health insurance regulation that may pose a big challenge to insurers' risk management. Because mandated uniform contributions to health insurance trigger risk selection efforts risk adjustment (RA) schemes become necessary. A good deal...

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The Process of Project Risk Identification

Maytorena, Eunice; Winch, Graham; Freeman, Jim; Kiely, Tom - Manchester Business School

Project risk management has become an important area of interest in project management practice over the past decade. Numerous best practice standards, tools and techniques have been developed focussing on a more effective risk management process. This process consists of four main phases:...

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Market Liquidity Risk - An Overview

Stange, Sebastian; Kaserer, Christoph - Center for Entrepreneurial and Financial Studies <München> - 2009

Market liquidity is the ease of trading an asset. Its risk is the potential loss, because a security can only be traded at high or prohibitive costs. While the omnipresence and importance of market liquidity is widely acknowledged, it has long remained a more or less elusive concept. Treatment...

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Family Firms, Agency Costs and Risk Aversion - Empirical Evidence from Diversification and Hedging Decisions

Schmid, Thomas; Ampenberger, Markus; Kaserer, Christoph; … - Center for Entrepreneurial and Financial Studies <München> - 2008

We analyse whether family firms differ from non-family firms in terms of business segment and geographical diversification or the application of currency hedging instruments. This analysis is based on a unique dataset of 339 publicly listed companies (1,561 firm years) in the German Prime...

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An Intensity Based Non-Parametric Default Model for Residential Mortgage Portfolios

Burkhard, Jürg; De Giorgi, Enrico - Institut für Schweizerisches Bankwesen <Zürich>; … - 2004

In June 2003 Swiss banks held over CHF 500 billion in mortgages. This important segment accounts for about 63% of all loan portfolios of Swiss banks. Since default insurance is not common in Switzerland, the corresponding risks are a severe threat for the health of the ﬁnancial system. We...

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Some Statistical Pitfalls in Copula Modeling for Financial Applications

Fermanian, Jean-David; Scaillet, Olivier - Institut für Schweizerisches Bankwesen <Zürich>; … - 2004

In this paper we discuss some statistical pitfalls that may occur in modeling cross-dependences with copulas in ﬁnancial applications. In particular we focus on issues arising in the estimation and the empirical choice of copulas as well as in the design of time-dependent copulas.

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Anomalies in Intertemporal Choice?

Gerber, Anke; Rohde, Kirsten I. M. - Institut für Schweizerisches Bankwesen <Zürich> - 2007

This paper argues that observations of non-stationary choice behavior need notnecessarily imply speciﬁc properties of the individuals discount function. As weshow, the observed anomalies in intertemporal choice can alternatively be explained by an individuals perception of the risk...

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Bankruptcy law and firms' behavior

Epaulard, Anne; Pommeret, Aude - Institut für Schweizerisches Bankwesen <Zürich> - 2006

The aim of this paper is to study the impact of bankruptcy law on financing, investment, default and liquidation decisions of firms. We build a model in which a firm can finance its investment by issuing debt. The investment is risky. Because of risk, the firm may default. The firm manager takes...

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