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, values‐at‐risk, and certainty equivalent returns associated with five types of multi‐peril crop insurance across different …. Individual revenue products reduce risk in the tails more than group policies, but result in greater reductions in mean revenues … insurance is associated with greater relative risk reduction in locations with greater underlying yield variability.  …
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine international experience with multiple-peril crop insurance (MPCI). Named peril crop insurance is available in most countries but MPCI is less common. While named peril insurance is widely successful, MPCI has a checkered history. In most...
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determinant of their well‐being. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the potential role of off‐farm employment as a risk … set for about 20,000 Canadian farms, from 2001 to 2006, in order to estimate the relationship between farm income risk and … resources within the non‐farm sector. This is particularly relevant to risk management farm policies that have typically …
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Companies face a great challenge of balancing both risk and return on par. In today's volatile economic environment …, success depends on strategically managing risks. All organisations accept risk in every decision that they take and risk … with behavioral factors or qualitative. Effective strategic risk management must address both quantitative and qualitative …
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corporate risk in general and at the context in which CRE decisions are made. Next, the types of risk generally inherent in CRE …, physical and regulatory CRE risks. Possible risk management strategies are offered, to reduce the risks associated with CRE … accounting for risk in corporate real estate management (CREM) are provided. The discussion of the risks inherent in CRE usage …
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Purpose – The use of risk management strategies and practices in UK local authorities has increased significantly in … which there is evidence of quantifiable, positive risk management outcomes. Design/methodology/approach – The research used … study, interviews were conducted with their risk managers. In addition authority‐specific information was gleaned from …
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). This technique extends the risk prioritization beyond the conventional risk priority number (RPN) method. A new scale has … been defined. The ranks 1 through 1,000 are used to represent the increasing risk of the 1,000 possible severity …‐occurrence‐detection combinations, called risk priority ranks (RPRs). The failures having a higher rank are given higher priority. This approach …
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This paper investigates the extent to which risk reduction can be achieved within the UK property market in high and … shown that the achievable level of risk reduction is negatively related to the level of market risk of the individual assets …. Thus portfolios based on individually high market risk assets require larger numbers of properties to achieve the same …
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the degree to which Islamic banks in Pakistan use risk management … practices (RMPs) and techniques in dealing with different types of risk. Design/methodology/approach – A standardized … questionnaire is used which covers six aspects: understanding risk and risk management (URM), risk assessment and analysis (RAA …
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explain the antecedents of environmental uncertainty in management using a historical framework. The goal of developing passion and compassion in management practice and research cannot be achieved unless a better understanding is developed of the main...
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