This article considers injuries related to crushing and methods of prevention and minimization of such injuries, particularly from the perspective of plant operations, where a crush injury occurs when the body or a body part is trapped, pinched or jammed under or between objects (Victoria State...

This paper explores the sources of counterparty risk in material supply relationships. Using long-term supply contracts collected from SEC filings, we test whether three sources of counterparty risk — financial exposure, product quality risk, and redeployability risk — are priced in the...

This paper brings empirical evidence that the positive effect of exposure to advertising on consumers' tendency to purchase a product is due to the informative nature of ads and to consumers' risk-aversion. We show that the findings of previous studies that advertising intensity is an element in...

In this paper we provide a review of copula theory with applications to finance. We illustrate the idea on the bivariate framework and discuss the simple, elliptical and Archimedean classes of copulae. Since the copulae model the dependency structure between random variables, next we explain the...

In this paper we provide a review of copula theory with applications to finance. We illustrate the idea on the bivariate framework and discuss the simple, elliptical and Archimedean classes of copulae. Since the copulae model the dependency structure between random variables, next we explain the...

We study Aumann and Serrano's (2008) risk index for sums of gambles that are not dependent. If the dependent parts are similarly ordered, then the risk index of the sum is always larger than the minimum of the risk indices of the two gambles. For negative dependence, the risk index of the sum is...

This teaching note provides step-by-step instruction for simulating the net present value and the internal rate of return of a five-year project. The uncertainty lie in the initial level of sales, sales growth rates, gross profit margins, operating expenses before depreciation, and the terminal...

It is important to incorporate diverse heavy-tailed dependency between risks in estimating economic capital. Copulas can be a useful technique to capture dependence structure where extreme events occur simultaneously. Using the sample of U.S. property liability insurance industry, we examine the...

It is well known that a plain riskless floater is worth par and has zero interest rate delta immediately before a fixing in a classic one curve setup. We investigate the structure of the delta under credit risk, a first fixing and a margin added to the payoff. We decompose the delta into three...

A framework which consistently and fully integrates market, credit and country transfer risks of a general portfolio of financial assets in a multi-period setup is developed. An appropriate definition of exposure, loss-given-defaults and loss-given-transfer-events provides a unified treatment of...