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How policy changes affect shareholder wealth: The case of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster
Betzer, André; Doumet, Markus; Rinne, Ulf - 2011
This paper analyzes how policy changes affect shareholder wealth in the context of environmental regulation. We exploit the unique and unexpected German reaction to the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster, which involved the immediate shutdown of almost half of Germany's nuclear reactors while...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010285992
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How policy changes affect shareholder wealth: The case of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster
Betzer, André; Doumet, Markus; Rinne, Ulf - 2011
This paper analyzes how policy changes affect shareholder wealth in the context of environmental regulation. We exploit the unique and unexpected German reaction to the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster, which involved the immediate shutdown of almost half of Germany's nuclear reactors while...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291081
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Risk Communication and public perception of technological hazards. First Volume
Recchia, Virginia - 1999
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011608544
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Risk Communication and public perception of technological hazards. Second Volume
Recchia, Virginia - 1999
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011608545
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The effect of industry, region and time on new business survival: A multi-dimensional analysis
Fritsch, Michael; Brixy, Udo; Falck, Oliver - 2004
We analyze the effect of industry, region and time on new-business survival rates by means of a multi-dimensional approach. The data relate to West German districts in the 1983-2000 period. The survival chances of start-ups tend to be relatively low in industries characterized by a high minimum...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010305668
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The effect of industry, region and time on new business survival: A multi-dimensional analysis
Fritsch, Michael; Brixy, Udo; Falck, Oliver - 2004
We analyze the effect of industry, region and time on new-business survival rates by means of a multi-dimensional approach. The data relate to West German districts in the 1983-2000 period. The survival chances of start-ups tend to be relatively low in industries characterized by a high minimum...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010307877
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Determinanten des Überlebens von Neugründungen in der badenwürttembergischen Industrie. Eine empirische Survivalanalyse mit amtlichen Betriebsdaten
Strotmann, Harald - 2002
Ziel des Beitrags ist eine empirische Analyse der Bedeutung möglicher Determinanten des Überlebens von Neugründungen in der badenwürttembergischen Industrie in der Zeit von 1981 bis 1994. Für die Studie wurden erstmals Daten der amtlichen baden-württembergischen Industriestatistik auf der...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010322037
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Does community context have important bearings on the divorce rate? A fixed-effects study of twenty Norwegian first-marriage cohorts
Lyngstad, Torkild H. - 2006
community-level factors that may influence a couple's risk of divorce: Socioeconomic conditions, the local marriage market, and … the normative climate. Discrete-time hazard models with community-level fixed effects are estimated using a register … drive divorce rates down but that economic conditions do not matter for divorce risk. Estimates obtained from regular models …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010352590
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Integration of fuzzy reasoning approach (FRA) and fuzzy analytic hierarchy process (FAHP) for risk assessment in mining industry
Verma, Shikha; Chaudhri, Sharad - In: Journal of Industrial Engineering and Management (JIEM) 7 (2014) 5, pp. 1347-1367
hazard prone industries. To maintain safety in workplace timely assessment of risk associated with different operations … hybrid risk assessment approach for mining industry. Design/Methodology: Accident data from 1995 to 2012 is reviewed to … identify hazards contributed to negative outcomes. The FRA approach is implemented to evaluate the risk levels associated with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011939176
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The determinants of regional migration in Great Britain: a duration approach
Andrews, Martyn J.; Clark, Ken; Whittaker, William - 2008
Using data from the first fourteen waves of the British Household Panel Survey, we estimate a discrete duration model of interregional migration in Great Britain. By exploiting retrospective information on residency we control for late entry as well as unobserved heterogeneity. We find...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010270628