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that parimutuel insurance intrinsically leads to participants being underinsured due to basis risk. Although participants … will be underinsured, parimutuel insurance guarantees no underlying risk borne by the issuer. We also derive the equivalent … transaction costs of traditional insurance relative to HuRLOs. The actual transaction cost for traditional insurance is found to …
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This half-semester course discusses decision theory and topics in game theory. We present models of individual decision-making under certainty and uncertainty. Topics include preference orderings, expected utility, risk, stochastic dominance, supermodularity, monotone comparative statics,...
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increased risk as perceived by utilities, banks and lessors and the unpredictability of those risks as perceived by insurance … higher rate of return obtaining insurance; or some combination of DOE loan guarantee, lease and insurance. No attempt has …
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Today's insurance industry strongly emphasizes developing cost-effective hazard mitigation programs, increasing and … the Insurance Industry.'' Presentations were made by insurance company representatives, insurance trade groups, government … discuss how energy efficiency and renewable technologies can contribute to reducing insurance losses. …
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The following subjects are included: a geothermal resource overview, the evolution of the current Texas geopressured-geothermal institutional structure, project evaluation with uncertainty and the structure of incentives, the natural gas industry, the electric utility industry, potential...
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cleanrooms, which is a cross-cutting market segment known to have high reliability requirements. Finally, we present insurance …
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in the cost of non-renewable energy (NRE), and the option or insurance value of deploying RE if and when NRE costs rise …-making process. An illustrative example indicates how options expose both the insurance and timing values inherent in a simplified RE …
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effects of poor IAQ is increasing. If so, these increases have ramifications for insurance carriers, which pay for many of the … costs of health care and general commercial liability. However, little is known about the actual costs to insurance … and legal databases, and interviews with insurance and risk management representatives aimed at finding information on the …
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Today's insurance industry strongly emphasizes developing cost-effective hazard mitigation programs, increasing and … reducing insurance losses and offer suggestions on how to collaborate with the utility industry and how to develop educational …
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project finance in recent years has been provided by 'tax equity investors' (typically large investment banks and insurance …
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