German biotechnology industry. As many of these, usually younger companies are active in a high-risk business and have not …

strong evidence that the effect of income level on risk of death is primarily causal, while evidence for the effect of income …This dissertation contains two empirical papers on income and premature mortality, and one methodological paper that … concerns the summary measurement of the extent of social inequalities in health. Income dynamics and adult mortality: Canada …

zeigt, dass eine klare Trennung von Motiven für Diversifikation und Refokussierungsstrategien auf Basis individueller …. Diversification strategies are the subject of intensive debate in media economic research. The aim of this study is to analyze the … drivers for diversification and refocusing actions in media organizations. Part 1 examines the state of the art in media …

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to consider the impact on bank risk of portfolio diversification between … income and fee income. Further, regression analysis considers bank risk and revenue concentration. Findings – This paper … documents that fee-based income is riskier than margin income but offers diversification benefits to bank shareholders. While …

-section data, increases in interest costs, age, and diversification were found to have positive relationships with net income … variability. However, only the diversification variable was significant when deviations below mean net farm income were used as … the measure of risk. Increasing farm size also was found to have a positive relationship with net income variability. When …

. Executive compensation is an expense like any other business expense that must be subtracted from income in reckoning … managers to assume additional risk. As a result, CEOs naturally insist on the prospect of greater returns. In effect, CEOs have …

of their expectations on future income growth rates: the shadow of unemployment. Using consumption panel data that …By how much do employed households reduce their consumption when the aggregate unemployment rate rises? In Spain during … the Great Recession a 1 percentage point increase in the unemployment rate was related to a strong drop in household …

consumers if one focuses on income rather than present value. Gender-based pricing means that a man must set aside more from his … insured or at the income available to the beneficiary under an annuity, gender-based pricing appears to be quite at odds with … buy insurance with a view to the income it will generate for the beneficiary. Clearly, people buy annuities to provide …

Modell mit skill mismatch und endogener Jobzerstörung zu einer längeren erwarteten Dauer des der Arbeitslosigkeit folgenden … Arbeiterflüsse in die Arbeitslosigkeit während einer Rezession der Rückgang der Einstellungsneigung von Firmen ist, was auch aus dem … raising unemployment benefits in a model with endogenous job destruction and skill mismatch leads to a longer expected …