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Risk Communication and public perception of technological hazards. First Volume
Recchia, Virginia - 1999
Research on risk communication relates basic risk perception studies to the formulation of policies, the currently … communication is a relatively new field based on a sociological approach. The discipline comes from risk perception studies … plant of petroleum products. The method used for the analysis foresees a review of the main findings about risk perception …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011608544
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Overconfidence and technology adoption in health care
Comin, Diego; Skinner, Jonathan; Staiger, Douglas - 2022
hospitals in the rate of adoption between 2002-2006, and a strong reversal from 2006-2013. We find that perception bias explains …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014480649
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Alan Greenspan, the quants and stochastic optimal control
Stein, Jerome L. - 2010
Alan Greenspan's paper (March 2010) presents his retrospective view of the crisis. His theme has several parts. First, the housing price bubble, its subsequent collapse and the financial crisis were not predicted either by the market, the FED, the IMF or the regulators in the years leading to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010300502
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A quarter-century review of human resource management in the US: The growth in importance of the international perspective
Schuler, Randall S.; Jackson, Susan E. - In: Management Revue 16 (2005) 1, pp. 11-35
The past quarter century has witnessed many developments in the research and practice of managing human resources in the United States. In this article, we briefly describe two major areas in which these developments have been unfolding: strategic human resource management and international...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010318077
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Application of stochastic optimal control to financial market debt crises
Stein, Jerome L. - 2009
This interdisciplinary paper explains how mathematical techniques of stochastic optimal control can be applied to the recent subprime mortgage crisis. Why did the financial markets fail to anticipate the recent debt crisis, despite the large literature in mathematical finance concerning optimal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276757
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Optimal debt and equilibrium exchange rates in a stochastic environment : an overview
Stein, Jerome L. - 2004
The focus is upon equilibrium real exchange rates, optimal external debt and their interaction, in a world where both the return on investment and the real rate of interest are stochastic variables. These theoretically based measures are applied empirically to answer the following questions:...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261108
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How successful are exchange rate communication and interventions? Evidence from time-series and event-study approaches
Fratzscher, Marcel - 2005
The paper analyses whether communication and actual interventions in FX markets are successful in moving exchange rates over the medium- to long-run. It compares empirical evidence based on time-series analysis with that obtained from an eventstudy approach. Both the time-series approach based...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011604574
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Economic mobility, family background, and the well-being of children in the United States and Canada
Corak, Miles; Curtis, Lori; Phipps, Shelley - 2010
This comparative study of the relationship between family economic background and adult outcomes in the United States and Canada addresses three questions. First, is there something to explain? We suggest that the existing literature finds that there are significant differences in the degree of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269450
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The distribution of top incomes in five Anglo-Saxon countries over the twentieth century
Atkinson, Anthony B.; Leigh, Andrew - 2010
Taxation data have been used to create long-run series for the distribution of top incomes in quite a number of countries. Most of these studies have focused on the national experience of individual countries, but we can also learn from cross-country comparisons. Comparative analysis is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010270632
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Immigration Policies: Competing for Skills
Ochel, Wolfgang - In: CESifo Forum 01 (2000) 4, pp. 27-33
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