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This paper examines the choice of tools for managing a firm’s operational risks: cash reserves, insurance contracts, and financial assets under an optimal financing contract that solves moral hazard between insiders and outside investors. Risk management is valuable as it reduces the costs of...
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This article extends the theory of corporate risk management to encompass highly dynamic risks. Taking Viscusi'�s (1989 …) prospective reference from the context of individual decision making and applying it to a corporate context we propose a theory of …
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This paper examines the choice of tools for managing a firm’s operational risks: cash reserves, insurance contracts, and financial assets under an optimal financing contract that solves moral hazard between insiders and outside investors. Risk management is valuable as it reduces the costs of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010745872
Basel II Framework brings important changes, since life insurance and surety policy are «eligible» guarantees for Credit Risk Mitigation. Nevertheless, banks could offer a better pricing to borrowers not because they are less risky, but because the whole operation would need a lower capital...
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This paper explores insurance as a source of financial system vulnerability. It provides a brief overview of the insurance industry and reviews the risks it faces, as well as several recent failures of insurance companies that had systemic implications. Assimilation of banking-type activities by...
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Die starke Abhängigkeit von exogen determinierten Zuständen der Welt (Wetter, Krankheiten, Schädlinge etc.) ist konstituierendes Element der meisten landwirtschaftlichen Produktionsprozesse. Während diese Zustandsabhängigkeit auf der einen Seite eine Unsicherheitssituation entstehen lässt,...
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Der Beitrag enthält eine anreiztheoretische Analyse der Versicherungssysteme, die zur Entschädigung von Kosten und Verlusten aus Tierseuchenausbrüchen in den EUMitgliedsländern eingerichtet sind. Es wird gezeigt, dass Kompensationszahlungen zur Erzielung effizienter Schadenverhütungsanreize...
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Risikomanagement der operationellen Risiken dürfte in Zukunft ein entscheidender Wettbewerbsfaktor sein. Im Rahmen der Neuregelung der … bankaufsichtsrechtlichen Vorgaben gemäß Basel II werden sowohl eine Eigenkapitalunterlegung als auch qualitative Vorgaben zum Risikomanagement … dieser Risikoklasse neu eingeführt. Erklärtes Ziel ist es, Anreize für ein verbessertes Risikomanagement zu setzen. Die …
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The paper shows the ways of disclosing financial risks by IFRS 7 and certain types of sensitivity analysis. The different possibilities of preparing a sensitivity analysis, such as value at risk are illustrated and their suitability for reporting are faced critically. Following, the manner of...
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