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. It suggest a microeconometric method for measuring flooding related risk preferences of affectedindividuals. The method …-experimental approach to measure differences in the risk attitudes of farmers located in highflooding risk areas versus farmers located in … low flooding risk areas is followed. Changes in flooding risk relatedbehaviour over time is analysed and marginal effects …
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the complete risk management process. An Example from a mechanical engineering company is used for the final validation of …
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-Walrasian disequilibrium approach and describe optimizing agents. These agents use chance constraints which depict a Cash Flow at Risk approach …
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Much farm financial risk research has involved the application of "credit-scoring" models. We approach the issue of … measuring financial risk by using the actual interest rates charged on agricultural loans reported in the USDA's ARMS survey as … market-based measures of the financial risk associated with individual farm operations. A simultaneous equations model …
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Pension reform is one of the biggest challenges facing national governments. How toreform the old pay-as-you-go (PAYG) systems is still under hot debate; one of themost influential funded pension schemes is designed by the World Bank. In thesecond chapter of this paper, we first review the...
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This paper studies the impact of variations of a pay-as-you-go pension system on welfare in a stochastic overlapping generations model where compulsory public retirement savings coexist with private savings in assets and bonds. It is shown that, for a stationary population, any reduction of...
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Established in 1988, the Shingo Prize for Operational Excellence recognises organisations in the USA, Mexico and Canada …
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effect). This study has practical implications for regulators, corporations and investors, both in the USA and abroad. …
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Offshore outsourcing continues to gain prominence as the printing industrystrides into the future. With different segments of the industry looking at reducingcosts and, in exchange providing value-added services, more companies turntowards outsourcing services offshore as a solution. Although it...
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Though the present thesis is not intended as a monograph, its respective chapters are interrelated: The major research question is whether the German public pension system (or potentially any annuity-based pension system) causes redistribution between income groups. Especially the relationship...
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