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This thesis investigates several selected environmental issues in China from an economic perspective. It consists of four self-contained papers. Chapters 2-4 address the issues related to water shortage, while Chapter 5 focuses on the cost of air pollution. Chapter 2 analyses the potential...
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radiation protection; carcinogenic risk coefficients at environmental levels of radon exposures: a microdosimetric approach; and … populations exposed to radon alpha particles. Topics of concern include the following: compound dual radiation action (general … approximations; nanodosimetry of radon alpha particles; application of the HSEF to assessing radiation risks in the practice of …
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and legal databases, and interviews with insurance and risk management representatives aimed at finding information on the … discussions with insurance and risk management professionals reported in this paper turned up little specific information about …
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. It suggest a microeconometric method for measuring flooding related risk preferences of affectedindividuals. The method …-experimental approach to measure differences in the risk attitudes of farmers located in highflooding risk areas versus farmers located in … low flooding risk areas is followed. Changes in flooding risk relatedbehaviour over time is analysed and marginal effects …
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the complete risk management process. An Example from a mechanical engineering company is used for the final validation of …
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-Walrasian disequilibrium approach and describe optimizing agents. These agents use chance constraints which depict a Cash Flow at Risk approach …
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It has been widely assumed that there was a bubble in the U.S. housing market after1999.This paper analyzes the extent to which that was true. We define a bubble as: (1) a regime shift that is characterized by a change in the properties of deviations from the fundamentals of house price growth,...
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This paper provides a comprehensive review of the factors that can cause price levels to diverge and which are at the root of different inflation rates in Europe including the EU-27. Among others, we study the structural and cyclical factors influencing market and non-marketbased service, house...
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Property is a dual good. It provides both a variety of housing services and, sometimes, investment returns. Premiums are paid for a complex bundle of relative advantages, risks, and opportunities within idiosyncratic, complex, and evolving metropolis. Factors beyond the urban footprint influence...
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bailouts. In particular, the SMC has highlighted thefact that risk, credit ratings, profit and valuation as well as capital … regulation are important bankingconsiderations. With regard to risk, the thesis discusses credit (including counterparty), market …,mortgage origination that led to information problems (loss, asymmetry and contagion), valuationopaqueness and ineffective risk mitigation …
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