. 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 …

the complete risk management process. An Example from a mechanical engineering company is used for the final validation of …

-Walrasian disequilibrium approach and describe optimizing agents. These agents use chance constraints which depict a Cash Flow at Risk approach …

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 …

Without large-scale implementation of fire hazard reduction treatments, the costs of uncharacteristic crown fires in … prefire hazard reduction. We examined the economic rationality of continuing this policy of emphasizing fire suppression … activities over restoration-based fire hazard reduction treatments. We compared treatment plus fire suppression costs to the cost …

risk aversion and models of the utility function. One particular theory (expected utility with rank dependent probabilities …"Most decisions (political, economic, and social) are made in the context of risk so the subject of human behavior … under risk is of interest to several disciplines. Social science researchers who apply experimental methods to study …

This thesis contributes to the development of theoretical and experimental approaches that extend the analysis of risk … preferences beyond the classical concept of expected utility theory. The thesis contains four main chapters.The first two chapters … are concerned with extensions and applications of the most promising descriptive theories of behavior under risk. In these …

Neoclassical analysis of the labor market and its institutions. A systematic development of the theory of labor supply …

Arbeitsmärkte in der EU und den USA wesentlich voneinander unterscheidet. Geringe Lohnflexibilität und eine begrenzte Mobilität der …