Research on risk communication relates basic risk perception studies to the formulation of policies, the currently … evolving legislation dealing with hazards, the key issues of public involvement, the risk and environmental management. Risk … communication is a relatively new field based on a sociological approach. The discipline comes from risk perception studies …

, smooth and stabilize consumption as well as minimize portfolio risk. In this context we also show how the correlation between …

is a new risk factor for enterprises taking part in this system. In this paper, we analyze how risk emerging from … loss account accounting for uncertainties and dependencies. Consequently, this model provides a basis for risk assessment …

This paper investigates political uncertainty as a source of regulatory risk. It shows that political parties have … incentives to reduce regulatory risk actively: Mutually beneficial pre-electoral agreements that reduce regulatory risk always … skewed. These results follow from a fluctuation effect of regulatory risk that hurts parties and an output-expansion effect …

generates regulatory risk. I show that this risk has a fluctuation effect that hurts both parties and an outputexpansion effect … that benefits one party. Consequently, at least one party dislikes regulatory risk. Moreover, both political parties gain … from eliminating regulatory risk when political divergence is small or the winning probability of the regulatoryriskaverse …

of implicitly motivated supervisors. Election arises when the risk related to expropriation of sunk investments and the …

yields mixed results. This paper investigates the differences in risk profiles and realized returns between ethical and non … years of poor stock market performance, which indicates that systematic risk of ethical funds may be higher. …

Research on risk communication relates basic risk perception studies to the formulation of policies, the currently … evolving legislation dealing with hazards, the key issues of public involvement, the risk and environmental management. Risk … communication is a relatively new field based on a sociological approach. The discipline comes from risk perception studies …

This paper sheds light on some unexpected consequences of health insurance regulation that may pose a big challenge to … insurers' risk management. Because mandated uniform contributions to health insurance trigger risk selection efforts risk … indicator of high risk (Beck et al. [2006]). Applying the new formula to an individual Swiss health insurer, its payments into …