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Demand Screening with Slotting Allowances and Failure Fees
DeVuyst, Cheryl S - In: Journal of Agricultural & Food Industrial Organization 3 (2005) 2
In the presence of scarce shelf space, retail grocers face the proliferation of new products and high failure rates. Accurately predicting the demand for a new product becomes increasingly difficult for retailers as the number of product offerings increases. This study explores slotting...
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Understanding the Mediation Effect of Cloud Computing Adoption in Indian Organization: Integrating TAM-TOE- Risk Model
Raut, Rakesh; Priyadarshinee, Pragati; Jha, Manoj - In: International Journal of Service Science, Management, … 8 (2017) 3, pp. 40-59
The aim of this paper is to measure the business performance by taking Cloud computing adoption as a mediating variable in Indian industries. A conceptual model is framed using the concept of a TAM-TOE framework which is combined with some new constructs of ‘Risk'. Partial and full mediation...
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The Pseudo-Observation Analysis of Time-To-Event Data. Example from the Danish Diet, Cancer and Health Cohort Illustrating Assumptions, Model Validation and Interpretation of Resul...
Mortensen, Lotte Maxild; Hansen, Camilla Plambeck; … - In: Epidemiologic Methods 7 (2018) 1
Abstract Regression analyses for time-to-event data are commonly performed by Cox regression. Recently, an alternative method, the pseudo-observation method, has been introduced. This method offers new possibilities of analyzing data exploring cumulative risks on both a multiplicative and an...
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A typology of unexpected events in complex projects
Piperca, Sorin; Floricel, Serghei - In: International Journal of Managing Projects in Business 5 (2012) 2, pp. 248-265
two main, but opposing, theoretical perspectives: one rooted in decision theory and the other that sees projects as social …
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An investor’s perspective on risk-models and characteristic-models
Fieberg, Christian; Poddig, Thorsten; Varmaz, Armin - In: The Journal of Risk Finance 17 (2016) 3, pp. 262-276
Purpose In capital markets, research risk factor loadings and characteristics are considered as opposing explanations for the cross-sectional dispersion in average stock returns. However, there is little known about the performance an investor would obtain who believes either in the...
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Limited Competition, Information Asymmetry, and Organizational Forms
Seog, S. Hun - In: Asia-Pacific Journal of Risk and Insurance 1 (2006) 2
The theory of information asymmetry has explained the coexistence of stock and mutual companies in the insurance market …. However, there is discrepancy between the theory and empirical findings. This paper proposes a simple theory to fill the gap … between the theory and empirical findings. Our approach is to modify the theory of information asymmetry by incorporating …
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Assessing Adverse Selection in Crop Insurance Markets: An Application of Parametric and Nonparametric Methods
Makki, Shiva S.; Somwaru, Agapi L. - In: Asia-Pacific Journal of Risk and Insurance 2 (2007) 1
This paper investigates adverse selection in crop insurance markets using both parametric and nonparametric methods. Our results reject the conditional independence of the choice of insurance contracts and risk of loss, implying the presence of informational asymmetries between insurers and...
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Testing for Adverse Selection in China's Auto Insurance Market
Gao, Feng; Wang, Jun - In: Asia-Pacific Journal of Risk and Insurance 5 (2011) 1
This paper empirically examines the adverse selection models by using the data from China’s personal automobile insurance market through the standard positive-correlation test. Results show that higher-risk insurance policyholders do tend to buy insurance with a lower coinsurance rate, which...
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Contractual Externalities and Common Agency Equilibria
Martimort, David; Stole, Lars - In: Advances in Theoretical Economics 3 (2003) 1
This paper characterizes the equilibrium sets of common agency games with direct externalities between principals when they compete with nonlinear prices. Direct externalities arise when the contracting variable of one principal directly affects the other principal's payoff. First, we...
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Adverse Selection and Insurance Contracting: A Rank-Dependent Utility Analysis
Ryan, Matthew Joseph; Vaithianathan, Rhema - In: Contributions in Theoretical Economics 3 (2003) 1
Stiglitz (1977) established three well-known features of monopoly insurance markets subject to adverse selection: (i) at least one market segment is served, despite the informational asymmetry; (ii) there is always some screening of risk classes; and (iii) efficiency is sacrificed to achieve...
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