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The optimum behavior of a competitive risk-averse international trader who supplies or demands commodities invoiced in … foreign currency is examined when his profits are subject to several forms of risk: production, domestic cost, the exchange … and the double hedging theorems are derived. The behavior of the same firm with and without complete markets is compared …
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The enormity and pervasiveness of the global economic crisis that began in 2008 makes it relevant to analyze the circumstances that can explain this catastrophe. This will also provide clues to the appropriate remedial measures needed to prevent future occurrences of similar developments. The...
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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 …
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This paper discusses methods to quantify risk and uncertainty in macroeconomic forecasts. Both, parametric and non … macroeconometric model of the Bundesbank for Germany. Forecast intervals that integrate judgement on risk and uncertainty are obtained. …
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results regarding the test of TCE guided hypotheses in prior relationship marketing and management research. To overcome these …
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China has turned from a 'low risk' to a 'high risk' society since the start of the market reforms in the late 1970s … exposure and vulnerability to them unequally among different social groups. This paper attempts to apply the risk concept to … this family, and explore the relationships between livelihood, risk, social networks, agency and public policy …
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This note considers the treatment of risk and uncertainty in the recently established social cost of carbon (SCC) for … discounting, it mis-estimated climate risk, possibly hugely. Given the uncertainty about estimating the SCC, the note concludes by …
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This paper is devoted to risk management and risk measurement methods. The author considers methods of risk measurement … and proposes the Inte- gral Sum of Differential Weighted Indexes of Risks (or ISDWIR) method of risk measurement. The … method is based on dynamic enterprise risk matri- ces. The matrix describes the changes of corporate risk values over the …
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The purpose of this paper is to clarify the difference between the mainstream and Keynesian understandings of uncertainty which persists in spite of superficial similarities. It is argued that the difference stems from the mainstream habit of thinking in terms of a full-information benchmark,...
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although risk can be measured, uncertainty cannot be measured. Even though risk can be measured, a simple symmetric measure … attempt at "measuring" risk or (fundamental) uncertainty is flawed. …
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