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Introduction
Frieden, Jeffry A. - Princeton University Press
’s characteristics—including its exposure to currency risk and the price effects of exchange rate movements—determine those preferences …
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Currency Politics: The Political Economy of Exchange Rate Policy
Frieden, Jeffry A. - Princeton University Press
’s characteristics—including its exposure to currency risk and the price effects of exchange rate movements—determine those preferences …
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Inflation as restructuring. A theoretical and empirical account of the U.S. experience
Nitzan, Jonathan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1992
This work is a PhD dissertation, written at the Department of Economics, McGill University. The thesis offers a new framework for inflation as a process of restructuring. Contrary to existing theories of inflation, which tend to take structure and institutions as given for the purpose of...
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A CROSS-CULTURAL STUDY ON RISK, UNCERTAINTY, AND INFORMATION
NARA, YUMIKO - In: New Mathematics and Natural Computation (NMNC) 06 (2010) 02, pp. 167-176
In this paper, the author aims to examine the differences in perception concerning the anxiety toward the risk among …. This paper also intends to clarify the effect of information to improve people's risk management targeted on the … effects on information designed as a part of the risk management action plan as well as the living sufficiency safeguard are …
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HOW SENSITIVE ARE US HURRICANE DAMAGES TO CLIMATE? COMMENT ON A PAPER BY W. D. NORDHAUS
BOUWER, LAURENS M.; BOTZEN, W. J. WOUTER - In: Climate Change Economics (CCE) 02 (2011) 01, pp. 1-7
An article by William D. Nordhaus (2010) in this journal examined the economic impacts by hurricanes in the USA, and …
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‘Relax and take a deep breath’: Print media coverage of asthma and air pollution in the United States
Mayer, Brian - In: Social Science & Medicine 75 (2012) 5, pp. 892-900
The media are an important social actor in the construction of the public's understanding of the complex relationships between the environment and their health. This paper explores the print media's coverage of the relationship between asthma and air pollution, focusing on the portrayal of...
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Risk as feelings in the effect of patient outcomes on physicians' future treatment decisions: A randomized trial and manipulation validation
Hemmerich, Joshua A.; Elstein, Arthur S.; Schwarze, … - In: Social Science & Medicine 75 (2012) 2, pp. 367-376
The present study tested predictions derived from the Risk as Feelings hypothesis about the effects of prior patients …' negative treatment outcomes on physicians' subsequent treatment decisions. Two experiments at The University of Chicago, U.S.A …, intolerance for uncertainty, risk attitudes, and the influence of simulation characteristics, the WWD experimental condition …
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Women's childbirth preferences and practices in the United States
Miller, Amy Chasteen; Shriver, Thomas E. - In: Social Science & Medicine 75 (2012) 4, pp. 709-716
-making regarding childbirth. Scholars have demonstrated the impact of medical authority, religion, perception of risk, and access to … examine the ways women's preferences emerge and how a sense of risk and safety shape their decision-making around pregnancy …
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Uncertainty and economic analysis of climate change : a survey of approaches and findings.
Peterson, Sonja - Kiel Institute for the World Economy - 2006
The analysis of climate change is confronted with large uncertainties that need to be taken into account to arrive at meaningful policy recommendations. The main contribution of economics to this interdisciplinary task is to provide formal frameworks and techniques for analyzing climate policy...
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Stochastic Dominance and Expected Utility: Survey and Analysis
Levy, Haim - In: Management Science 38 (1992) 4, pp. 555-593
While Stochastic Dominance has been employed in various forms as early as 1932, it has only been since 1969--1970 that the notion has been developed and extensively employed in the area of economics, finance, agriculture, statistics, marketing and operations research. In this survey, the first-,...
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