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response could be taken, as for example mitigation and insurance. This doctoral thesis focuses on the relation between the … insurance and the mitigation approach. It studies the impact of insurance instruments on mitigation of climate change. The main …
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allows them to extend to consumers individually adjusted fair insurance offers. In a market which is characterized by … for the analysis in this thesis. Its purpose is to study the incentives of the agents in the car insurance market … in terms of the design of contracts and to the policy maker in terms of regulating the insurance market. After a short …
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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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This dissertation is composed of two distinct chapters. The first chapter is concerned with the secular trends in corporate cash holdings and the determinants of the changing cash policies for seven industrialized countries--Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Japan, the US, and UK. In the first...
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This dissertation studies the Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) and itseffects on foreign exchange markets and corporate cash holdings. These two potentialeffects are examined in the dissertation in two separate essays.The first essay examines the validity of the purchasing power parity...
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Ziel dieser Arbeit ist es, ausgehend von der Marktsituation der deutschen Direktversicherungsunternehmen, eine Perspektive f?r den Absatz von Versicherungsprodukten ?ber das Internet zu entwickeln. Im Anschluss an die einf?hrenden ?berlegungen werden die technischen Grundlagen des Internets kurz...
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Effekten, wie z.B. Stickstoffauswaschung, kann die Versicherung durch Produktionsausweitung negativ wirken. Als Substitut für … Pflanzenschutzmittel, wenn diese einen negativen externen Effekt haben, würde die Versicherung positiv wirken. Es ist aber zweifelhaft, ob … gerechtfertigt, wenn diese den Charakter öffentlicher Güter haben. So können Informationen, die die Versicherung für die …
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In der vorliegenden Dissertation wird untersucht, inwiefern die Vorschriften zur Rechnungslegung von Versicherungsunternehmen in China mit denjenigen nach IFRS konvergieren, d.h., wie sich China durch Reformen des Rechnungslegungsrechts schrittweise an die IFRS annähert. Hierbei wird der...
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