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Applications of Solar Technology for Catastrophe Response, Claims Management, and Loss Prevention
Deering, A.; Thornton, J.P. - 2008
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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Solar technology and the insurance industry: Issues and applications
Deering, A.; Thornton, J. P. - 2008
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009436547
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Essays in empirical industrial organization.
Suzuki, Junichi - 2009
University of Minnesota Ph.D. dissertation. April 2009. Major: Economics. Advisors: Patrick L. Bajari and Thomas J. Holmes. 1 computer file (PDF); vii, 73 pages, appendix A. Ill.(some col.)
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MANAGING CATASTROPHIC RISK BY ALTERNATIVE RISK TRANSFER INSTRUMENTS
Ou Yang, Chieh - 2010
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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14.123 Microeconomic Theory III, Spring 2009
Eso, Peter - 2009
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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National Incident Management System (NIMS) Standards Review Panel Workshop Summary Report
Stenner, Robert D.; Kirk, Jennifer L.; Stanton, James R.; … - 2008
The importance and need for full compliant implementation of NIMS nationwide was clearly demonstrated during the Hurricane Katrina event, which was clearly expressed in Secretary Chertoff's October 4, 2005 letter addressed to the State's governors. It states, ''Hurricane Katrina was a stark...
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DOE Fire Protection Handbook, Volume I
2009
The Department of Energy (DOE) Fire Protection Program is delineated in a number of source documents including; the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR), DOE Policy Statements and Orders, DOE and national consensus standards (such as those promulgated by the National Fire Protection Association),...
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Droughts and big baths of Australian agricultural firms
Kent, Pamela; Monem, Reza; Cuffe, Glenn - 2008
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine whether Australian agricultural firms display big bath behaviour during droughts by recognising extraordinary and abnormal losses. It is hypothesised that Australian agricultural firms are more likely to report big bath losses in drought years...
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Are We Entering an Era of Concatenated Global Crises?
Biggs, Duan; Biggs, Reinette; Dakos, Vasilis; Scholes, … - 2011
"An increase in the frequency and intensity of environmental crises associated with accelerating human-induced global change is of substantial concern to policy makers. The potential impacts, especially on the poor, are exacerbated in an increasingly connected world that enables the emergence of...
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Executive order No. 2003-21: Arizona Fire Service Mutual Aid Plan
Napolitano, Janet - 2003
[T]he Arizona Fire Chiefs Association (AFCA), Arizona State Land Department, Arizona Division of Emergency Management, and county emergency management agencies have developed the Arizona Fire Service Mutual Aid Plan to facilitate the sharing of statewide fire service resources; and [provide] for...
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