In this thesis we consider two comparative statics questions of changes in risk. The first question concerns situations … where an individual faces some risk and has no control over the uncertain environment. In these situations we ask what kind … of changes in risk will cause the individual's expected utility to increase. The second comparative statics question …

In this paper we study the production and pricing of a good by a single supplier (such as a monopolist or government … require discriminatory pricing. The primary focus here is on the pricing policy and whether it is possible to achieve the same … objective value with common pricing--where each individual acquiring the good pays the same price. We consider the case of …

.The absence of risk control and risk management can be destructive towards overallbusiness performance. Management skills are … on existing IT infrastructures. The need for a robust risk managementframework exists although many industry standard … propose a general reference framework thatdescribes an optimal project risk management process plan for IT projects …

The contribution deals with the relation between agricultural production and risk factors. This relation was studied in …. Risk is a natural companion of all business activities, risk cannot be excluded but its impact on the production can be … reduced. Risk can grow into a problem and its solution always involves higher expenses. …

individually to determine if they were effective in minimizing down side risk, and combined to determine if integration created … side risk in wheat and corn, but not significantly in soybeans. Marketing alternatives generally increase the up side … potential of gross revenue per acre, while doing little to minimize the down side risk. The integration of crop insurance …

interaction the trusting agent, in order to analyse the Risk, has to consider the possible likelihood of failure of the … from a set of probable trusted agents. In this paper, we propose a fuzzy risk based decision making system that would …

is obvious for the trusting peer to analyze the Risk beforehand that could be involved in dealing with a trusted peer in … of choosing a peer to interact with by analyzing the Risk that could be involved in dealing with each of the possible … which peer to interact with after analyzing the Risk that could be associated in dealing with each of them. …

assessments of risk and benefit. The results indicate that this relationship is consistent across a variety of products and … heuristic and subsequent judgments of risk and benefit. Recently, Song and Schwarz investigated the relationship between … differences in fluency and perceptions of risk. Their results suggested that fluency experiences influence risk perception through …