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Four Essays on Debt Securitization and Entrepreneurial Finance

Weber, Thomas - 2008

Chapter 1 is joint work with Günter Franke, University of Konstanz, and Markus Herrmann, HSBC London, and addresses the question how collateralized debt obligation (CDO-) transactions are designed. An important issue is the information asymmetry about the quality of securitized debt between...

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Essays in Behavioral and Experimental Economics

Dürsch, Peter - 2010

Kooperation in einem einmaligen Spiel. Darüber hinaus finden wir keinen Hinweis darauf, dass Risikoaversion ein Faktor ist …

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The development of a reference database of health information resources to facilitate informed lifestyle choice

Cottrell, Genevieve Lee - 2008

This study investigates, within the current health care situation, theinterrelationship of the user, resources and tool in the design of a prototypeWELLNESS database-driven web site. A shift has taken place in health care,in which the base of conventional medicine has broadened to integrate...

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Small business benefits for, barriers to, and information sought using the Internet

Lee, Geoffrey; Mcguiggan, Robyn L. - 2009

Small businesses require the right information to enhance their competitiveness, increase access to markets, and improve profitability. The internet is widely recognized as a valuable source of information, yet small businesses are reported to lag behind their larger counterparts in internet...

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Theoretical aspects of long-term evaluation in environmental economics

Traeger, Christian - 2006

Konsum. Im zweiten Teil der Arbeit wird ein verallgemeinertes Bewertungsmodell sowie ein neues Konzept der Risikoaversion … eingeführt. Dieses Konzept der intertemporalen Risikoaversion greift einen wichtigen Aspekt des Vorsichtsprinzips auf. Der dritte … schwacher Nachhaltigkeit. Der zweite Teil der Arbeit führt das Konzept der intertemporalen Risikoaversion in einem didaktisch …

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The Role of Exchange Rates in the Intertemporal Risk-Return Relation in International Economies

Bali, Turan G.; Wu, Liuren - 2005

This paper investigates the role of currency denomination in the the intertemporal risk-return relation among G7 countries. Similar to the findings of previous studies, our estimation also shows that the financial markets of the G7 countries are integrated. We obtain significant pricing...

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The Aggregate Dynamics of Capital Structure and Macroeconomic Risk

Bhamra, Harjoat S.; Kuehn, Lars-Alexander; Strebulaev, … - 2008

We study the impact of time-varying macroeconomic conditions on optimal dynamic capital structure and the aggregate dynamics of firms in a cross-section. Our structural-equilibrium framework embeds a contingent-claim corporate financing model within a standard consumption-based asset- pricing...

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Modeling farmer participation to a revenue insurance scheme by means of Positive Mathematical Programming

Severini, Simone; Cortignani, Raffaele - 2011

European farmers face increasing income uncertainty and the debate is growing on the role of insurance schemes and of public support in this field. This debate is further stimulated by the perspective of introducing instruments to cope with risk also in the Common Agricultural Policy. Therefore,...

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A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis of Conservation Reserve Program Participation under Uncertainty

Isik, Murat - 2005

This paper develops theoretical and empirical models to understand how farmers formulate their participation strategies when deciding to enroll in the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) under uncertainty. A theoretical model is employed to obtain the impacts of various factors on the optimal...

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Insights into Trader Behavior: Risk Aversion and Probability Weighting

Mattos, Fabio; Garcia, Philip; Pennings, Joost M.E. - 2007

The objective of this study is to investigate how professional traders in futures and optionsmarkets behave under risk and uncertainty. Our preliminary findings suggest that most tradersexhibit concave utility functions for gains and convex utility functions for losses, while theirweighting...

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