recently that the term sustainability economics was used explicitly in the ecological, environmental, and resource economics … community. Yet, the contributions that use the term sustainability economics do not refer to any explicit definition of the term … background. The question thus arises: What is sustainability economics? In this essay, we make an attempt at systematically …

We argue that economics - as the scientific method of analyzing trade-offs - can be helpful (and may even be …

different risk preferences and measure efficiency with a structural model based on utility maximization. Using the almost ideal … demand system, we estimate input and profit demand functions to obtain proxies for expected return and risk. Efficiency is … then measured in this risk-return space. Mean risk-return efficiency is somewhat higher than cost and considerably higher …

products and services to informationally opaque customers, their ability to diversify credit and liquidity risk, and how they … liabilities to reduce the probability of bank runs. These aspects of banking affect a bank´s choice of risk vs. expected return …, which, in turn, affects bank performance. Banks have an incentive to reduce risk to protect the valuable charter from …

cost minimization to a more general assumption of managerial utility maximization that can incorporate risk incentives into … between the risk-incentives literature in banking that ignores the microeconomics of production and the production literature … that ignores the relationship between production decisions and risk. …

factors: risk, temptation, and efficiency, which we vary as orthogonal treatments. We find that temptation has the largest … relatively small compared to temptation. Risk does not have a significant effect on cooperation. Our finding suggests that …

) we vary three payoff indices. Indices of risk and temptation capture the unilateral incentives to defect against … reduces cooperation. In neither study, nor in either subject pool of our second study, do we find a significant effect of risk. …

The aim of this research is to develop a conceptual model that includes variables related to financing modes, risk … Mudharabah and Musharakah financing will generate high credit risk. Murabahah financing increases, directly and indirectly, the … examined the determinants of Islamic banks performance. The conceptual model added risk-taking and cost efficiency as …