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returns without ruling out normality. This contribution illustrates their usefulness in predicting the downside risk of …
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Following the real option literature, whether or not uncertainty shocks drive business cycles depends on the degree of adjustment frictions. The more plants freeze and remain inactive in response to increased uncertainty, the stronger the adverse effects on the economic activity. Using quarterly...
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investors carry power market risks, in particular the power price risk. At the same time however, under the current financial … endanger further deployment and the achievement of renewable targets with it. Against this background we take a risk … perspective to assess the past and upcoming EEG reforms, with the aim of developing a proposal to gradually shift risk towards RE …
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This paper deals with the competencies of risk management professionals for assessing risk. Often such risk experts …, from a management perspective it is important to know the risk assessment competencies of these professionals and to know … how these could be biased. Or research focuses on the competencies of these risk management professionals and how they …
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and risks. This has been amplified by the lack of a sound operational risk estimate due to the scarcity of the relevant … Dragon Kings regime for the largest events. With respect to risk assessment, our main finding is that risk is dominated by …
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in modern financial risk management techniques like Value at Risk. This paper suggests a regression based density …
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This study analyzes the relationship of individual risk attitudes and occupational sorting with respect to occupational … earnings risk. By using the German Mikrozensus, a precise measure for earnings risk is computed as the occupation-wide standard … deviation of wages. Following the procedure proposed by Bonin (2007), this earnings risk measure is used as dependent variable …
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with the wage dispersion of an individual's occupation. -- dispersion estimation ; earnings risk ; censoring ; quantile …-coded administrative wage data from the German IAB Employment Sample (IABS). We then relate these robust measures of earnings risk to the … risk attitudes of individuals working in these occupations. We find that willingness to take risk is positively correlated …
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Individual risk preference may change after experiencing external socio-economic or natural shocks. Theoretical … predictions and empirical studies suggest that risk taking may increase or decrease after experiencing shocks. So far the … whether experiencing financial and health-related damage caused by storms affects risk preference of individuals in Germany …
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